The most useful app I found recently – Transit App (thank you, Daily Scot) described here – is now even more useful. Almost from the day Mobi launched, the app had the docking stations marked, with the number of bikes and available racks immediately evident.
Plus Car2Go locations and reserve options. Plus bike routes in addition to transit lines, with the next bus shown in real time.
The layering is the thing: practically all the choices I need to navigate the city, seamlessly integrated on one interface.
That explains this:
Letter here.
The click link to the app doesn’t work. I need to get this app.
Try this link — iOS and Android
http://transitapp.com/
“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.”
There have been many transit apps (and mobile web pages) but this is the first one that makes having a smart phone and data plan as good as simply planning ahead.
The only thing different about this generation is they have less economic opportunity than the previous one, a reversal of almost two centuries of North American economic progress.
I often wonder when people post such things if they realize they are the unwitting (or perhaps “witting”) tools of the 1%. As someone once said “environmentalism is the best marketing serfdom every had”. How better to manage the declining economic prospects of the masses than to package it up with a big green bow. Of course, it’s not that overall car ownership is declining, it’s just that GM is selling more Buicks in China these days.
I highly doubt that anyone’s decision to take transit is for environmental reasons.