DoubleMap Bus Tracker

Friends, this app is truly the best app for the City Bus of Lafayette, Indiana because of the live bus tracker. Unfortunately, due to the complete disregard to their own time table, the city bus will arrive at your bus stop at its own free will. Friends, Double Maps shows you where the bus really is so you don't have to feed into the lies that are scheduled daily. My only comment is the time estimator on Double Maps is equally as corrupt as the bus schedule itself. "0-6 minutes" it says, just wait five more minutes to see, in fact, that there is no change and the bus will still be arriving in "0-6 minutes"... So friends, This isn't about the supposed functionality of this app, but rather the deception and corruption that we are subjected to by our local transit system.

DoubleMap is a very helpful app. I use it many times a day. However, the user interface is atrocious. For example, when zooming in on specific locations of the map, the app will automatically zoom out as soon as you take your hands off the screen and re-center the map to show all the routes. I have spent minutes zooming in on the same location over and over to monitor a bus’s route because DoubleMap implemented what seems to me to be a useless feature. There are other examples of things like this on the app, but for me this is the most annoying. Also, heads up, the route times within the app are based on a schedule, not the actual buses, so if a bus is running early or late the times are useless. I never use them. In summary, I really like DoubleMap (great concept), but it is extremely frustrating (poor execution).

I use this app almost every day and I love it. I can plan when to leave my house and get to the bus stop within 1-2 minutes of when the bus arrives, every time. Obviously traffic, weather and driving styles will affect the exact time that the bus arrives at any stop (as anyone who has ever driven a car will know), but the GPS tracker helps make up for any discrepancies in the scheduled and actual arrival times. Occasionally, the GPS tracking data is unavailable, which is disappointing if you have become dependent on the app, but this is pretty rare, and you can just revert to using the time schedule in those cases.

Bus will be here in 0-1 minute. Suddenly, bus will be here in 12-14 minutes. THEN it changes to 23-25 minutes. Eventually the bus appears at my stop without warning. I run to catch it, only to watch it drive away. I was already extremely late. This crap didn't happen before this update. Update: bumped up a star. Seems like they fixed this problem, which I really appreciate! But times are still inaccurate. It'll tell me 10-12 minutes. Check the app three minutes later... and the bus is leaving my stop. This has happened multiple times. This review is for CityBus of Lafayette.

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This app is better than nothing. It works sometimes and it at least shows me where bus stops are and what buses stop there (though this info is wrong a lot). The times are more or less close to the actual times give or take 15 minutes. However this app often screws up entirely. I currently am sitting in the freezing cold waiting for a bus that this app said has arrived and left 4 tunes despite it never having passed by. NO bus has passed by, not even going the other direction. This is a problem I have often with the app. Basically the app has a more or less a good approximation of bus times between 9-6. Before and after that it’s a free for all. I’d like to add that even when there’s NO TRAFFIC the times are still WILDLY inaccurate.