Phone apps keep transit riders on time

Monday, September 27, 2010 - 14:42 in Mathematics & Economics

Allen Stern says he had a 40-minute wait between buses when he lived in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Using a free mobile app that became available about a year ago, he could at least tap into the Metropolitan Transit Authority with his cell phone and find out exactly how far away the next bus was from his stop.

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