What you expected:
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What you got:
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Bus detours: they're everywhere. When you find your stop's been moved? It's often too late. 😤
If only we could detect detours automatically... 🤯
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Montréal vit sa plus grande tempête de verglas depuis 1998
💥🌲 Arbres tombés, pannes d'électricité, routes bloquées
👋🥶 30% des bus sont déviés (2 fois plus qu’à l’habitude)
🌨️📡 Transit détecte ces détours automatiquement
🗺️👀 Ouvrez Transit et vérifiez l’état de votre ligne
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Les détours de bus sont partout. Quand tu réalises qu'il y a en un, il est souvent trop tard
Si seulement ils étaient affichés dans Transit...
C’est maintenant le cas! En collabo avec @stminfo site.transitapp.com/fr/bus-en-cava
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Montreal's biggest ice storm since 1998!
💥🌲 Fallen trees, power lines, roads blocked
👋🥶 30% of bus lines detoured (twice the norm)
🌨️📡 We're tracking detours in real-time so you know where to board + disembark
🗺️👀 Tap on any transit line to see current detour status
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Bus detours: they're everywhere. When you find your stop's been moved? It's often too late.
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And that's a wrap!
🎬 Our 3-year partnership with has come to its predetermined end™
😎 What we accomplished, and what comes next: blog.transitapp.com/case-study/thr
👑 Want to support our work in LA? Get Royale!
📬 Can't afford it? We got you. Message us in the app.
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this cameo is the closest we'll ever get to winning "best supporting actor" 😂
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Hayden Begley deserves an Oscar for this TikTok
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[STM x Transit] 🚌📱 Good news! In collaboration with , we are launching a new functionality to help visualize the current bus detours. Try out the beta version now on our website, or on the Transit mobile app.
More info ⏩ bit.ly/3xXcjDz
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Vos attentes:
🚏🚏🚏🚏🚏🚌
La réalité:
🚏❌❌❌🚏🚌
Les détours de bus sont partout. Quand tu réalises qu'il y a en un, il est souvent trop tard 😤
Si seulement ils étaient affichés dans Transit... 🤯
C’est maintenant le cas! En collabo avec
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Riders are showing drivers the ❤️ today — sending more than 100k virtual valentines to their transit agency staff!
For the rest of the day, you can tap GO & send your driver a grateful smile down the aisle 👋🚍💘
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Until today, your GO trip lived behind the lock screen. Today we’re busting those bars wide open!
👋 Hello Live Activities
🤳 See GO updates on the lock screen
❄️ No PIN (or de-mittening) required
🎅 For iOS and Android
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Where do Transit riders go for the holidays?
All the tropes you heard are true.
• New Yorkers love Miami 🌴
• Toronto prefers *you* come to *them* 😈
• Montreal métro less crowded? Thanks, Paris. 👋🇫🇷
Look up your city and see 🎅🗺👉
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Ten years of Transit. Wow.
From the (very-deep-subway) depths of our hearts, thank you for riding with us.
Tonight we'll blow out a candle and enter our double-digit era. Our wish? More 🚲, more 🚌, more 🚈.
Bisous,
Transit 🎈👋
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🅰️gencies can now build their own Transit-powered trip planners, kiosks and more 💪
🅿️ull trip plans, departure times, stop locations, etc. — with data that's reliably pristine, thanks to Transit's in-house magic ✨
ℹ️t's finally here: the Transit API
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Today we're...
a) strapping on our best bolo tie 🤠🎗️
b) hitching our bronco to the bus post 🎠
c) feelin extra Feisty 🤘👩🎤
because....
d) We're Calgary's new official app for all things 🚍, 🚊, 🚲 — and maybe even 🐎?
PS: everyone in Calgary has been upgraded to Royale 👑🔥
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Great news #CTRiders! We’ve selected @transitapp as our official mobility-as-a-service trip planning app! And starting today, you’ll automatically be upgraded to Transit Royale, Transit’s subscription service. Download the app today at transitapp.com/download.
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we've just given you a nickname and emoji 🪄✨to bedazzle the leaderboards & point you out to friends — whenever you use GO 🚍
- open Transit 🤳
- top left corner 👀
- behold: your new GO identity 🤙
- don't like? shuffle till your ❤️ is 💘
- turn on Ghost Mode to stay anon 👻
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Today we’re riding into the Alamo on a different kinda saddle 🏇🏜😏
Riders in San Antonio can now:
• Purchase & unlock 🚲 for
• Activate their pass for 🚍
All within Transit.
For your next spur-of-the-moment trip 👉
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We're rolling out the green carpet for our team this week... because they've been nominated for an Apple Design Award!
Tune into the awards show — we promise the only 💥👋 we’ll be doing is high-fiving the bus driver.
developer.apple.com/design/awards/
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Two years of 😷😷😷 — then, in just a few weeks, masks largely disappeared from transit across Canada and the US.
- Only 52% of trips are "mostly masked"
- This is down from 62% last week
- Some cities are down to 20%
- Still masked-up: MTL ⚜️ and LA 🌇
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Do you use transit in:
🏔 LA ()
🏜 Albuquerque ()
🗽 Nassau County ()
⛲️ Kansas City ()
🏂 Denver ()
🪕 Nashville ()
👇 or any of the 20 systems below?
Crack that bubbly OJ 🍾🍊— your agency got you 🆓 Royale!
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there’s way more schedule mayhem than usual.
so we've set up a new alerts system:
✨📆 schedule changes 📆✨
➼ are waits going ☝️🪀👇?
➼ weekday service using weekend hours?
➼ other weirdness?🎄🏈
when a schedule change is coming to your line 👉
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Transit Twitter is not real life.
👉 Low-income riders are 8x less likely to get transit info from Twitter than rich riders
👉 IRL + Zoom meetings? Black and Latino riders are 2 to 4x less likely to attend
How do agencies ensure all riders are informed?
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Big news!
Agencies are now able to gift Transit Royale subscriptions, city-wide.
If you ride 🚍 in:
🎵 St. Louis ()
✈️ Dayton, OH ()
🍰 Duluth, MN ()
📷 Rochester, NY ()
...you get Royale for free. More to come: blog.transitapp.com/news/first-age 👑
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When the bus is coming in "5 minutes" — do you believe what you're told?
For years, we're been a humble conduit. Showing you the ETAs we get from your transit agency. When those ETAs are off? You're 🤬
Could we do better?
Better ETAs. Yes. Finally:
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Today we're launching something new.
You've probably wondered at some point, "how does Transit make money???"
Well... business models are hard. We've thought about ours a lot. (A LOT.)
And we're going with one that puts transit riders first: transitapp.com/royale
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Is your bus busier than the line at Jam Café during Saturday brunch rush? 📈☕️
Or emptier than a pop-up tuxedo shop on Wreck Beach? 🕴⛱
For our straphanger friends in search of solitude:
We’re now the official oracle™ for passenger counts across Metro Vancouver 🌲🐳🌦
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Does your bus have room to ride? TransLink and @transitapp have teamed up to predict how full your bus will be through the Transit app.
Learn more: buzzer.translink.ca/?p=64101
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Today we're going on a celebratory cool-down in the frosty St. Lawrence River 💻🥵👉❄️🏊♂️
Because we just sold our 1,000,000th fare! 🎟😲
We've helped riders in 50+ cities go cash-free — and virtually eliminated lines at the kiosk.
Your city, next? ⌚️👀
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We're lousy at poker. Fools at craps. Hopeless at blackjack. So we rolled into Vegas 🎲 the only way we knew how — 🅑🅘🅒🅨🅒🅛🅔🅢!
For the first time in 🇺🇸: you can buy 🚲 ~and~ 🚍 passes together. Double or nothing! Thanks
Céline would be proud🎤
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Side project time 👀❗️
To help our home province (Québec) accelerate the 💉, we built : it surfaces hard-to-find, last-minute vaccine appointments.
We've also added 💉 locations throughout Transit (in all cities where the data is open).
medium.com/transit-app/fi
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Vaccélérons la campagne! 📆⏩💉
Pour réserver des rendez-vous de dernière minute au Québec, suivez 👉 👈
∙ Parfois pas de dispos avant une semaine et ➕
∙ Comment trouver des plages horaires de dernière minute?
∙ On a une solution:
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pre-transit era: ★☆☆☆☆
post-transit era: ★★★★★
nice little story in the wall street journal 🙃 about the work we've been doing for transit agencies like 🌴🚍🎥
we're teaming up with them to 📈📈 the rider experience. v proud 👉
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Big yellow taxis. Small yellow taxis.
How bout: all the yellow taxis, alongside their nonyellow hail-able cousins. Now in Transit (in NYC 🍕 — soon, everywhere 🌎). Powered by .
Taxis were mobility's last horcrux. Now everything (🚖! 🚲! 🚊! 🚌! 🛴! 🚘!) is in one place.
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Federal transportation funding today:
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highways everything else
🚘 🚍🚆🚋🚲🚶♂️
It's time for to change that.
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Dreams of waffles and tulips and grand dukes: finally come true. We've just gone live in BENELUX!
Belgium (salut/haj 
) + Netherlands (haj 
) + Luxembourg (hallo 
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Big news! We've partnered with : the Major League Baseball of all things bus, train, or tram-related in the USA 🚍🙏🚊
Together, we've created: transitapp.com/apta
It helps agencies unpack today's tOpSy-TuRvY ridership trends — so you get better service ❤️
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Dreams of waffles and tulips and grand dukes: finally come true. We've just gone live in BENELUX!
Belgium (salut/haj 👋🇧🇪) + Netherlands (haj 👋🇳🇱) + Luxembourg (hallo 👋🇱🇺). Because you can't have one without the others... welcome to the fam! 🚍🚋
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🆕✨ w i d g e t ✨🆕
for those days when opening an app is too stressful. the tapping of finger… the bending of joint… the typing of directions… oh, mama, spare us!
mama’s got you: instant ETAs to all your favourite locations. right on your home screen.
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🎉 #BCTransit riders, it’s official - is our new, endorsed mobile app! 🚌💙
Available in 18 communities:
✅ See where your bus is in real-time 📍
✅ Find the fastest trips 💨
✅ Get simple directions 🗺️
✅ And more ✨
📲 Download today! go.bctransit.com/h30w50Bx6OK
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We just launched GO crowding in every city:
🦘 hop on any bus (or train)
📲 tell us if it's crowded
📢 we'll let other riders know.
Agencies often don't know how many people are on each vehicle. Thanks to GO, you’ll be able to find out.
Take a peek 👀👇 medium.com/transit-app/pu
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