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Just tried installing it on my commute in London. Didn't work - in fact it thought I was at the stop before the one I got on at (when I did have GPS) even when I was 5 or 6 stations further along on my journey. Then it spent the whole rest of the journey spamming me with notifications about the next departure time at the station I didn't get on at.

Wildly inaccurate even with GPS it seems.

Instant uninstall. Sorry.

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Their website doesn't include London in the UK section (https://TRANSITAPP.COM/REGION).

Pretty sure that’s a mistake, they do elsewhere (https://transitapp.com/en/region/london/tfl ), and I’m using it ,right now.

Not doing so would be astonishing given how many people use public transport here, and that TFL’s data is really, really open + easy to use.

I checked twice in disbelief, but amongst many many places - London (UK) not being listed was surprising to me. I thought it's maybe some extra challenge of the oldest subway system.

You could write to them and ask them to support London. Maybe they'll fly Etienne over and have him ride the whole system!

That’s a bummer, I use it daily in SF and the tracker it has for upcoming buses/trains has always been super accurate, and the stop countdown is always dead on. It even tells me when I need to speed up my walking to make it to the next bus in case it’s running a little early.

CityMapper is probably the best app for London, although I can't recall how it behaves in deep tunnels. I think it may just use a timer to alert you when to get off.

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