[pimlottc]

> It was incredible to me how each matatu basically had its own personality. Some would be quiet like riding on a normal bus in North America. But then you would have the party matatus that would be fully painted and blasting out music at 9am in the morning and the tout would be lauging and joking with all the passengers or singing.

I wonder... Aggregating this data and presenting it in a single app is tremendously valuable but does it also preserve knowledge about these forms of "local color"?

Can I see which routes are party buses, and which have quiet (and wifi)? Can I review them and keep track of which ones are sketchy, or clean, or have bad drivers, or are newer vehicles?

You could argue any transit system should let your rank and favorite routes, though the difference in quality between one route and another is not normally that significant on first-world single-operator systems. Although every major city usually has at least one locally-infamous nightmare route...