Puget Sound Trip Planner

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If the bus is coming this app can tell you if it’s running early or late. But if you live somewhere in King County where the buses are not reliable, neither is this app. If there is a bus that should be coming according to the printed schedule and this app, but isn’t really on the road (not atypical where I live) this app will tend to show it’s estimated time progressively later if you keep checking, until it’s ridiculously late, when it will just disappear. Ghost buses tend to always hover a certain time in the future, say 10 or 15 minutes away, till they blink out of existence. But, there will be another bus shown after that (whether or not there really is one). Lots of “ghost” buses in the evening where I live. Better to just start walking home.

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Sometimes it works but often will show a bus as coming half an hour late, then suddenly it will change and show it 2-3 minutes away. More maddening, it will just give a null result. For example, right now just to test it, I entered my address (near 175th and Aurora) and my destination as 3rd and pike. Time: 11 pm. And it gave me the “we could not find any trips at the requested time.” Meanwhile the website trip planner works just fine.

This app tells you what buses, etc., to use to get where you want to go. It seems to work with timetables, not real-time location information. For real-time info about whether you will catch your bus, use OneBusAway. You will be upset and you may write a lousy review for this app if you expect it to something it isn't meant to do. Use it if you're not sure how to get where you want to go. OneBusAway is not good for that. But I'm not going to write a lousy review for OneBusAway, because that's not what it's for. Use Trip Planner and OneBusAway together. That's what I do, and I get around Seattle with minimal frustration and zero parking angst.

This app is fantastic. I have never once had trouble with it, except when I was screwing up the input. One star is bull, complete and total “salt” if you will. A one star app is one that never works, horrible UI, etc. This is minimum 2 stars objectively. It might not have all the features you want or be perfect but like I said, it’s always worked for me. If we are to be fair then we ought to rate it fairly and that means rating on how it works as-is, not compared to some other app. Want departure times for your stop? Want trip planning? This app does it all. Bust it phat. Use this app. Just make sure you are entering things correctly and if that still screws up, I’m sorry, it hasn’t been my experience at all. Just be honest with yourself and fair and NOT entitled.

Going from work to a mall worked okay. Used it with One Bus Away, which has real-time bus info. It might work fine for other people, but I need to cut my loses and go back to Google Maps to plan trips. I might have kept this app but for these reasons: - The app crashed about twice in one hour when I was fiddling with it a lot. - I spent way too much of my time fiddling trying to figure out how to create a Favorite. Wasn’t able to create one. That should have been easy. - I live about 500 ft from a bus stop; the app couldn’t find my address. I tried two ways: just typing my street address and picking it from my Contacts List. Nope, no dice.