Horrible UI – MTA Subway Time Review

I downloaded this application as I live in Manhattan. This application has a horrible user interface and is difficult to use. When you select a train you want it should be smart enough to know where you currently are and scroll down to the closest station to your location, not require you to scroll ALL the way down and select it. Also, when you finally have a train selected, you cannot tell which train is going uptown and which is going downtown!! This has to be clearly marked. I am disappointed the L train is not listed even though it already has electronic displays in the subway which tells you when the next L train is arriving. The MTA even said themselves on TV that this is what they needed to have in place for it to work with their iOS app and they don't have it working! In the app it says "Subway Time is our countdown clock app. Only subway lines that presently have clocks are featured." Well, if this were true, you would have the L train. What the MTA should do is equip each and every train with a GPS. When that train is passing through a station it is read and its location is transmitted. If you have to wait for the MTA to install electronic displays in each and every station in NYC, it will take 10+ years. I guess the MTA forgot that they have A, B, C, D, E, F, G, J, Q, and R trains. To offer so few trains is rediculous. Shows the MTA's money hard at work!
Review by JeffTNYC on MTA Subway Time.