5 Smart Apps That New York Hopes Will Make Local Transit Easier
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New York City deserves a lot better local transit apps than the choices now. The ultimate multi-modal real-time local transit app is still some ways off, but tons of progress is being made, as Citymapper shows.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) has been hosting best local transit apps contest for two years now, and in its second year this year, it tied up with AT&T to award $50,00 among the five winning apps. This contest challenges "developers to show off their skills while solving real-world problems and enhancing the transit experience of MTA’s 8.5 million daily riders," according to the organizers.
The result: five transit apps hope to define the future of transit in this giant city, and hopefully useful in other cities around the world as well in the future. 49 apps were submitted in total, and these five
