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by admax88qqq 589 days ago
I find the bus tracking of this app in my city is pretty poor unfortunately. Probably not the apps fault probably an issue of the municipality but still annoying.

That being said, if this app could convince cities to also be used for payment that would be a game changer. Uber for public transit would really remove so much friction from using transit.

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They do support payment in some cities (mine included), and it works pretty well.

A bunch of the larger / better-funded systems are also moving to just accepting credit cards directly on the readers, which is even easier.

Some cities let you pay with contactless credit cards (at least London and New York have it; Boston and San Francisco are working on it) which seems like the most elegant solution to this, at least from a commuter’s point of view.
You can pay in the app on the Denver RTD system!
Awesome!