Category | Price | Seller | Device |
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Navigation | $0.99 | Vladimir Grinman | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Developed by Alex Grinman, Brookline High School, MA
This app is intended for Los Angeles residents who use the same bus routes everyday to get to work or to school. It can help them decide if they have to rush to make the bus, or if they can restfully finish their morning coffee without fear.
The app's user interface is designed to be very simple and intuitive. There is nothing extra: you select your bus route, whether you are going North, South, East, or West, and your bus stop (the closest stop to you will be highlighted if you allow location services). The app will then predict the arrival time for up to four incoming vehicles and you can locate the first one on the map. You can save stops as favorites to ensure quick access to them at any time. You can also see LA Metro alerts and service advisories.
There are two optional settings. You can choose to go straight to the last stop you viewed, whenever you load the app. You can also turn on automatic refreshing of prediction times and bus locations on the map.
This app relies on LA Metro’s partner, NextBus, which releases information, including real-time GPS locations and arrival countdown information, for all bus routes. This App is compatible with the iPhone and iPod Touch, but it requires an Internet connection (3G or WiFi) to get access to NextBus, who actually provides the real-time data.
Just loaded this APP and have already used several times. The info has been correct each time - works great!
This app is indispensable for anyone who rides the bus in LA. The real-time predictions of arrival times are dead-on accurate, and save me a lot of time that would have been spent ustanding around the bus stop waiting for the bus to arrive. 1000 times better than LA Metro's own worthless app.
update this app or if you could update this app simply return back the money. this is useless app.
This app has turned out to be a real life-saver! Predictions are always extremely accurate (usually within 1 minute). Takes the guesswork out of riding the bus. Minus one star because it sometimes times out or can't find any predictions (this is rare). Thank you!
Bus was late and I remember seeing an ad for an ap. Bought it, punched in the route and it was dead on.
I don't take the bus often, but with my car in the shop and needing to get to the doctors, this app really came in handy the other day.
Came to my stop ten minutes early and saw a bus leaving. 15 minutes later I downloaded this app and confirmed the bus that was ten minutes late yesterday had been early by the same amount today. This app then told me when the next would be by and was very accurate. As advertised.
I was three minutes early to my bus stop so I went to this app to see if I had missed the bus, but it was already only showing the next bus that was 15 minutes away. In actuality my original bus was just 3 minutes away and on time. Never showed up on the app after refreshing.
Extremely pleased with this app so far its always been right on the money with its predictions if its been wrong its been by a minute or two...for you LA and san fernando valley bus users this is the app to get...worth the .99