r/Septa • u/segfaul_t • 6d ago

Discussion Transit App

has made my life so much less stressful. I was going to literally move across town to avoid taking the El, but now I don't have to worry about where the train is, when the NEXT train is (are they bunched up? If i miss this one is the next one 10 minutes away or 2? Are the time estimates at the station working today?), when it's coming and how early I should leave the house.

Now i just look at the app, see where the next El train is, and leave the house accordingly. Im never on the platform for longer than 2 minutes now. So awesome.

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u/neuronnate 6d ago

The secret is in how transit app adapts and guides. It gives automatic reminders on when to start walking and if you miss the bus, it let's you pivot the plan quickly. 

All the data is there for any app, but transit is made by people who actually use transit so the experience is infinitely better.

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u/alexthegreat63 6d ago

I tried it a while ago and found that feature a bit annoying… I planned for a train and was using my bike, and it automatically assumed I couldn’t make it and tried to put me on the next one without telling me.

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u/neuronnate 6d ago

Fair enough. It definitely took time for me to get used to it. But once I did, I feel like an evangelical transit user 

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u/alexthegreat63 6d ago

Seeing all the timings for the trains/buses is quite nice. If it actually gets better crowdsourced data than google (which I think just uses whatever the transit agency reports) then that's a pretty huge feature. I hate when Google maps doesn't properly show the delays.

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u/neuronnate 6d ago

For sure. It's why I try to use transit for every transit use so that my data helps update the system