iCommute DC Replaces NextBus App for Metrobus
The popular smart phone app for tracking the Metrobus system is back after going dark in December.
Nextbus DC went dark in December, but now it is back with a new name—iCommute DC—and a few additional features, like a nearby stops map, according to DCist. As Patch previously reported, NextBus DC stopped working in December in part because of contractual issues between the two companies that supported the app. In the app's absence, a few new options have emerged, including BusTrack DC, which Patch reported on in February. BusTrack uses GPS data from WMATA to provide real time predictions of bus schedules. As DCist reports the iCommute DC app also uses GPS data: "The new program is functionally and visually similar to the old NextBus DC, with GPS-assisted lookups of the nearest bus stops, estimated arrival times of buses, and the ability…
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Daniel Simon
7:33 pm on Sunday, June 26, 2011
I think that public transportation is still a very European-esque, cultural thing. In US, the media and corporate energy interests spend so much time promoting car use and anti-Euro sentiment that it will be tough to get us to become comfortable using public transportation. Public transportation use would mean that we would have to share, be efficient and lose some of our individualism. These are… more ›