About Transit • Subway & Bus Times
Transit is your real-time urban travel companion. Open the app to instantly see accurate next departure times, track buses and trains near you on the map, and see upcoming transit schedules. Use the trip planner to...
Transit is your real-time urban travel companion. Open the app to instantly see accurate next departure times, track buses and trains near you on the map, and see upcoming transit schedules. Use the trip planner to quickly compare trips - including options like bus and bike, or metro and subway. Get alerted about service disruptions and delays for your favorite lines, and save frequently used locations for trip directions in a tap.
HERE’S WHAT THEY’RE SAYING
"Gives you the best route to where you want to go" - New York Times
“You won't realize how much time you can save planning until you use this app” - LA Times
“Killer app” - Wall Street Journal
"MBTA has a favorite transit app — and it's called Transit" - Boston Globe
“A one-stop-shop” - Washington Post
AND HERE’S THE WORD FROM PUBLIC TRANSIT RIDERS
“Your app was the deciding factor in selling my car.”
“Blows Google Maps out of the water.”
“The head of our local transit agency recommended this app over the one her agency created.”
6 GREAT THINGS ABOUT TRANSIT:
1) THE BEST REAL-TIME DATA
The app uses the best transit agency data sources like MTA Bus Time, MTA Train Time, NJ Transit MyBus, SF MUNI Next Bus, CTA Bus Tracker, WMATA Next Arrivals, SEPTA Real-Time and many more. We combine that data with our fancy ETA prediction engine so that you get the most accurate real-time info possible for all transit modes - including buses, subways, trains, streetcars, metros, ferries, ridehail and more. Prefer to travel on two wheels? With GPS, you can see live bikeshare and scooter locations right on the map.
2) TRAVEL OFFLINE
Bus schedules, stop locations, subway maps and even our trip planner are available offline.
3) POWERFUL TRIP PLANNING
See fast and easy trips combining buses, subways and trains – the app even suggests routes that combine multiple options in one trip like bus + bike or scooter + metro. You’ll find great trip plans that you never even considered! Don’t like to walk a lot or use a certain mode or transit agency? Personalize your travel in the settings.
4) GO: OUR STEP-BY-STEP NAVIGATOR*
Receive departure alarms to catch your bus or train, and get alerted when it’s time to get off or transfer. When using GO, you’ll also crowdsource more accurate info and real-time ETAs for other passengers– and rack up points and thank yous for being the most helpful rider on your line.
5) User Reports
See what other riders have to say! With millions of users contributing, you’ll get helpful info on crowding levels, on-time performance, the closest subway exits, and more.
6) Easy Payments
Pay your transit fare and buy bikeshare passes directly in the app in over 75 cities.
*continued use of GPS running in the background can decrease battery life.
300+ CITIES INCLUDING:
Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Hartford, Honolulu, Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Louisville, Madison, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Orleans, New York City, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Providence, Portland, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, St. Louis, Tampa, Washington D.C.
1000+ PUBLIC TRANSIT AGENCIES INCLUDING:
AC Transit, Atlanta Streetcar (MARTA), Bee-Line, Big Blue Bus, Caltrain, Cap Metro, CATS, CDTA, CTA, CT Transit, DART, DC Metro (WMATA), DDOT, GCRTA, HART, Houston Metro, KCATA, King County Metro Transit, LA DOT, LA Metro,LBT, LIRR, Lynx, MCTS, MDOT MTA, Metra, Metrolink, MetroNorth, Miami Dade Transit, MTA BUS, NCTD, New Jersey Transit (NJT), NFTA, NICE, NYC MTA Subway, OCTA, PACE, PRT, Ride-On, RTD, SEPTA, SF BART, SF Muni, Sound Transit, SORTA (Metro), St. Louis Metro, TANK, TheBus, Tri-Met, UTA, Valley Metro, Via
SEE ALL SUPPORTED CITIES & COUNTRIES: TRANSITAPP.COM/REGION
**Questions or feedback? Browse our help pages: help.transitapp.com, email us:
[email protected], or find us on X: @transitapp**
Apr 19, 2024
Version 5.15.16
The eclipse has passed. The sun has incinerated the last remaining snowflakes of Canada’s winter. Which means Montreal’s super cyclists have escaped from their exercise-bike-equipped basements and taken back the smooth tarmac of Circuit Gilles Villeneuve from the F1 racecars. Sometimes we ride down on our fixed gear bikes to watch the roadies pedal in circles for hours and hours in their skintight suits, like they’re training to be the prettiest horse at the Kentucky Derby.
Back home at Transit HQ, we’ve made the usual spring cleaning adjustments, and more:
- We’ve added bikeshare fare info to the app (in select cities, more to come) so you can see how much a ride on those metal tanks will run you
- New iOS emojis have been christened and added to our GO nickname generator
- Real-time data for nearby lines should now load a picosecond or two faster (by prioritizing downloads for visible lines first, and then downloading real-time for ones further away as you scroll down the list of lines)
- Other bug fixes and aerodynamic improvements
Rate us five stars to put Sriracha in the roadies’ bike bottles for extra motivation.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Transit • Subway & Bus Times since it was posted on our website on 2016-09-30 07:28:03.
The latest version is 5.15.16 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 09:44:36. See below the changes in each version.
Transit • Subway & Bus Times version 5.15.16
Updated At: 2024-04-19
Changes: Apr 19, 2024
Version 5.15.16
The eclipse has passed. The sun has incinerated the last remaining snowflakes of Canada’s winter. Which means Montreal’s super cyclists have escaped from their exercise-bike-equipped basements and taken back the smooth tarmac of Circuit Gilles Villeneuve from the F1 racecars. Sometimes we ride down on our fixed gear bikes to watch the roadies pedal in circles for hours and hours in their skintight suits, like they’re training to be the prettiest horse at the Kentucky Derby.
Back home at Transit HQ, we’ve made the usual spring cleaning adjustments, and more:
- We’ve added bikeshare fare info to the app (in select cities, more to come) so you can see how much a ride on those metal tanks will run you
- New iOS emojis have been christened and added to our GO nickname generator
- Real-time data for nearby lines should now load a picosecond or two faster (by prioritizing downloads for visible lines first, and then downloading real-time for ones further away as you scroll down the list of lines)
- Other bug fixes and aerodynamic improvements
Rate us five stars to put Sriracha in the roadies’ bike bottles for extra motivation.
Transit • Subway & Bus Times version 5.15.15
Updated At: 2024-03-22
Changes: Mar 22, 2024
Version 5.15.15
Spring is peeping out of the curtains and keeping us on our toes. One day we’re sunbathing on the mountain. The next day we’re wringing melted snow out of our wool socks and defanging the icicles in our beards.
As the mercury meter hops around like a jack-in-the-box, we’re bringing you a weatherproofed wagon of minor improvements, including:
- Better bicycle trip plans. You’ll now see a wider variety of options with fewer overlapping legs/zigzagging portions. We’ll also favour trip legs with bike paths and lightly-trafficked roads even more than before
- Tweaks that make your GO live activities easier to peep at from the Dynamic Island
- Added bathtub plugs and caulking to leaky strings in the UI, everything is pixel perfect now
Anything else? Yes, but you’ll have to wait until the next update!
Rate us five stars to ask Helios and his solar horses for five more solar eclipses.
Transit • Subway & Bus Times version 5.15.14
Updated At: 2024-03-01
Changes: Mar 1, 2024
Version 5.15.14
Whoever planned the annual American public transit conference to be in NEW ORLEANS and overlap with MARDI GRAS? We salute you… and fear you. We’re now in recovery mode after a week’s worth of parade-chasing, streetcar-riding, agency-collaborating, and haunted walks around the French Quarter.
Back home in Montreal, our loyal developers were foregoing the agency meetings, palm trees, and Bourbon street lemonades — and cooked up a gumbo of bug fixes for you all. Good thing we brought them back a pot of gumbo for real.
Rate us five stars to laissez les bons temps rouler… without letting the bugs rouler out of control.
Transit • Subway & Bus Times version 5.15.12
Updated At: 2024-02-07
Changes: Feb 7, 2024
Version 5.15.12
The forecast in Florida called for “falling iguanas” this month, as the sunshine state experienced a cold snap so cold it stunned the lizards in the trees. While our cold-blooded friends defrosted on the sidewalk, we waxed our cross-country skis, glided to the office, and got busy counting the number of snowed-in and snow-cleared bus stops in Montreal (see transitapp.com/snow for more info).
To keep the windchill at bay, our designer Béa knitted up some beautiful new in-app icons that will warm your heart... and feet. You can inspect her nimble-fingered needlework by navigating to the Royale section in the app settings. (Anyone can see her new app icons, but only our loyal subscribers can add them to their homescreen!)
Other than that? New year, new bug fixes:
- The illegibility wars between dark fonts and dark backgrounds (and light fonts and light backgrounds) that have vexed users of Dark Mode and other colourful in-app themes has reached a détente, thanks to our favourite in-app function, HighContrast.
- Planning a trip? We’ve made it easier to buy fares - even for trips that span different transit agencies! You’ll now see a neat “buy ticket” button, below the relevant leg of your trip, when you look up trip directions in the app.
Nothing else to report... time to go ice fishing.
PS: App glitch? Dropped stitch? We’re @transitapp on Twitterville. Rate us five stars if your usual place is chillier than red hot chili peppers.
Transit • Subway & Bus Times version 5.15.12
Updated At: 2024-02-07
Changes: Feb 7, 2024
Version 5.15.12
The forecast in Florida called for “falling iguanas” this month, as the sunshine state experienced a cold snap so cold it stunned the lizards in the trees. While our cold-blooded friends defrosted on the sidewalk, we waxed our cross-country skis, glided to the office, and got busy counting the number of snowed-in and snow-cleared bus stops in Montreal (see transitapp.com/snow for more info).
To keep the windchill at bay, our designer Béa knitted up some beautiful new in-app icons that will warm your heart… and feet. You can inspect her nimble-fingered needlework by navigating to the Royale section in the app settings. (Anyone can see her new app icons, but only our loyal subscribers can add them to their homescreen!)
Other than that? New year, new bug fixes:
- The illegibility wars between dark fonts and dark backgrounds (and light fonts and light backgrounds) that have vexed users of Dark Mode and other colourful in-app themes has reached a détente, thanks to our favourite in-app function, HighContrast.
- Planning a trip? We’ve made it easier to buy fares — even for trips that span different transit agencies! You’ll now see a neat “buy ticket” button, below the relevant leg of your trip, when you look up trip directions in the app.
Nothing else to report… time to go ice fishing.
PS: App glitch? Dropped stitch? We’re @transitapp on Twitterville. Rate us five stars if your usual place is chillier than red hot chili peppers.
Transit • Subway & Bus Times version 5.15.11
Updated At: 2024-01-27
Changes: Jan 27, 2024
Version 5.15.11
The forecast in Florida called for “falling iguanas” this month, as the sunshine state experienced a cold snap so cold it stunned the lizards in the trees. While our cold-blooded friends defrosted on the sidewalk, we waxed our cross-country skis, glided to the office, and got busy counting the number of snowed-in and snow-cleared bus stops in Montreal (see transitapp.com/snow for more info).
To keep the windchill at bay, our designer Béa knitted up some beautiful new in-app icons that will warm your heart... and feet. You can inspect her nimble-fingered needlework by navigating to the Royale section in the app settings. (Anyone can see her new app icons, but only our loyal subscribers can add them to their homescreen!)
Other than that? New year, new bug fixes:
- The illegibility wars between dark fonts and dark backgrounds (and light fonts and light backgrounds) that have vexed users of Dark Mode and other colourful in-app themes has reached a détente, thanks to our favourite in-app function, HighContrast.
- Planning a trip? We’ve made it easier to buy fares - even for trips that span different transit agencies! You’ll now see a neat “buy ticket” button, below the relevant leg of your trip, when you look up trip directions in the app.
Nothing else to report... time to go ice fishing.
PS: App glitch? Dropped stitch? We’re @transitapp on Twitterville. Rate us five stars if your usual place is chillier than red hot chili peppers.
Transit • Subway & Bus Times version 5.15.10
Updated At: 2023-12-20
Changes: Dec 20, 2023
Version 5.15.10
Ah. The ides of December. When the buses in Canada get decked out in the grooviest winter tires. When those wild winter bikers shed the skintight lycra for balaclavas, ski masks, enormous lobster mittens... proving once and for all what “hardcore” really means.
Back at Transit HQ, we’re managing the fleets despite the sleets, running over bugs with our studded-tire BIXI bikes. Who decided to call this “autumn”? Was it you, New Orleans?
- You can now dismiss our post-ride questionnaire where we ask you “how was your ride, out of five stars?” by swiping down
- Fixed issue with GO when we’d ask you “are you on the J or the F train?” when you were actually on a secret third train... we’re now better at asking which bus or train you’re on when there’s a lot of nearby overlapping transit lines (or the same line but with different branches)
- The developers hereby apologize to the designers for misnaming some of the 50 shades of grey in Transit’s colour bible (“you call that ‘elephant hide’? It’s obviously light pewter.”)
- Fixed issue where the little robot man who feeds real-time data into the app was skipping like a Green Day CD in your brother’s old Walkman
- Montreal snowbirds can now purchase 747 bus tickets from the airport to downtown, right in the app
- Other bug fixes as dry as these Decembers days are short
Don’t forget to rate us five stars. And if you find a bug? Send us an email (
[email protected]) or drop us a note on Google Plus... we hear it now has more users than Twitter?
PS: is that a new in-app icon I see? I wonder what it could all mean... manifesto.transitapp.com
Transit • Subway & Bus Times version 5.15.9
Updated At: 2023-12-17
Changes: Dec 17, 2023
Version 5.15.9
Ah. The ides of December. When the buses in Canada get decked out in the grooviest winter tires. When those wild winter bikers shed the skintight lycra for balaclavas, ski masks, enormous lobster mittens... proving once and for all what “hardcore” really means.
Back at Transit HQ, we’re managing the fleets despite the sleets, running over bugs with our studded-tire BIXI bikes. Who decided to call this “autumn”? Was it you, New Orleans?
- You can now dismiss our post-ride questionnaire where we ask you “how was your ride, out of five stars?” by swiping down
- Fixed issue with GO when we’d ask you “are you on the J or the F train?” when you were actually on a secret third train... we’re now better at asking which bus or train you’re on when there’s a lot of nearby overlapping transit lines (or the same line but with different branches)
- The developers hereby apologize to the designers for misnaming some of the 50 shades of grey in Transit’s colour bible (“you call that ‘elephant hide’? It’s obviously light pewter.”)
- Fixed issue where the little robot man who feeds real-time data into the app was skipping like a Green Day CD in your brother’s old Walkman
- Montreal snowbirds can now purchase 747 bus tickets from the airport to downtown, right in the app
- Other bug fixes as dry as these Decembers days are short
Don’t forget to rate us five stars. And if you find a bug? Send us an email (
[email protected]) or drop us a note on Google Plus... we hear it now has more users than Twitter?
PS: is that a new in-app icon I see? I wonder what it could all mean... manifesto.transitapp.com
Transit • Subway & Bus Times version 5.15.7
Updated At: 2023-11-24
Changes: Nov 24, 2023
Version 5.15.7
Ah. The ides of December. When the buses in Canada get decked out in the grooviest winter tires. When those wild winter bikers shed the skintight lycra for balaclavas, ski masks, enormous lobster mittens... proving once and for all what “hardcore” really means.
Back at Transit HQ, we’re managing the fleets despite the sleets, running over bugs with our studded-tire BIXI bikes. Who decided to call this “autumn”? Was it you, New Orleans?
- You can now dismiss our post-ride questionnaire where we ask you “how was your ride, out of five stars?” by swiping down
- Fixed issue with GO when we’d ask you “are you on the J or the F train?” when you were actually on a secret third train... we’re now better at asking which bus or train you’re on when there’s a lot of nearby overlapping transit lines (or the same line but with different branches)
- The developers hereby apologize to the designers for misnaming some of the 50 shades of grey in Transit’s colour bible (“you call that ‘elephant hide’? It’s obviously light pewter.”)
- Fixed issue where the little robot man who feeds real-time data into the app was skipping like a Green Day CD in your brother’s old Walkman
- Montreal snowbirds can now purchase 747 bus tickets from the airport to downtown, right in the app
- Other bug fixes as dry as these Decembers days are short
Don’t forget to rate us five stars. And if you find a bug? Send us an email (
[email protected]) or drop us a note on Google Plus... we hear it now has more users than Twitter?
PS: is that a new in-app icon I see? I wonder what it could all mean... manifesto.transitapp.com
Transit • Subway & Bus Times version 5.15.6
Updated At: 2023-10-31
Changes: Oct 31, 2023
Version 5.15.6
Strap on your gold lamé shorts, holster your toast, and turn the safety off on your favourite umbrella: it’s Rocky Horror Picture Show season.
We’ve cooked up a few horrors of our own in this update: if you live in New York City, behold our new Subway Rat Detector which lets you report rat sightings on the subway and look up how ratty your local stop is. For the leaderboard of rattiest stations, visit transitapp.com/rats
Got fun transit-related questions should we ask riders in your city? Does Paris really put the “rat” in “RATP”? What lurketh beneath the London Underground, besides a battalion of ghosts?
Tell us on Twitter @transitapp!
Other relevant house-keepings and mouse-peepings:
- On an underground train? We can now detect when you're on the move (even when your GPS is spotty) which will smooth out some quirks in your GO experience
- We removed the “protected lane tag” for shared bus + bike lanes in the bicycle trip planner
- Is your Apple Watch cluttered with Transit logos? You can now shelve our complication in the launcher widget, for a cleaner watchface
- Couldn’t set a GO reminder before a trip? Here’s your reminder that we fixed the bug... and now you can
- Other black magic, potions, and spells, per usual
Rate us five stars with costume ideas so the release notes team can finally win Halloween at the office.
