Blacksburg Transit

This app is next to useless. Most of the time, the bus trackers are so delayed that you have to make it to the stop 5-10 minutes early to make sure you actually get onto the bus. The other half of the time, the app outright stops working without warning and won’t tell you until it’s too late. I’ve literally walked out of my apartment to see the bus, I NEED to get on, pass me by, after this app tells me it’s still on campus. It’s ridiculous! The only times I’ve ever been late or missed a class is entirely because of this app. This is literally so frustrating that I’m writing my first and only review on the App Store. How difficult is it to fix the trackers? Especially when almost every student relies on these buses?

I figured this thing out in less than a few days and it became very helpful, especially after trying to use the website. When I found out about the app, it was a very useful tool for checking schedules. As far as I can tell the live map is sufficiently accurate for me to be able to plan my route. Most of the people rating this app are under 22, so what do they know. The thing does what its supposed to. Is it perfect? No. But I feel the need to give it 5 stars just to compensate for the ridiculous number of 1 stars. If you can’t read the map or look at the time table, that’s a you problem, not the app’s fault.

When it worked, I liked how easy it was to see where busses were and when they were coming. Of course, there were times that the live map was broken, but that was infrequent. My trouble now is that today when I went to open the app, it immediately crashed within seconds. This is a new issue I’m having even though the app has worked just fine in the past. I even removed and re-installed the app, but the problem persists.