Rider that need to transfer to other transit systems must continue using current fare payment options. Can I transfer to MTA Bus/Subway or Suffolk County Transit with mobile ticketing? Mobile tickets can only be used on NICE buses. You CANNOT use mobile tickets on MTA bus or subway, Suffolk County Transit, or Long Beach Transit.
Want to learn more? Email us at in General Where can I use mobile ticketing? You can use mobile tickets on all NICE buses. A spokeswoman told us this afternoon, "A lot of it will depend on feedback we get from users.* Tickets are only valid on NICE buses, and are not valid for transfers to MTA bus/subway and Suffolk County transit. Think of it as the countdown clock of the bus shelter.Īs for when the other boroughs will get time estimates, the MTA can't say just yet. According to official MTA documents, it factors in your bus's "historical travel times over the same distance in the month prior, and current traffic conditions." That way, it will tell you (or the MTA is hoping that it will accurately tell you) exactly how many minutes you'll be waiting. For example, a bus was always "one stop away" and never "three minutes away."īut a special version of the new app, which is rolling out a trial in the Bronx tomorrow, is more refined. Older versions of Bus Time estimated arrival based off of the user's distance from the next arriving bus, either by number of miles, or number of stops. Here's an example:Īs any self-respecting Big Brother app should, Bus Time keeps track of the routes you travel most frequently, and stacks them neatly at the bottom of the screen under "Your Recent Searches." We downloaded the app ourselves, and found that it reminded us of Uber a little bit, since a "map-based street grid view" shows buses moving along their routes in real time. Until now, foot-tapping New Yorkers had three options for finding out how much longer they'd be waiting in the beating sun/frigid cold: Open the Bus Time website in a smartphone browser text a cross street to 511123 to get a list of bus stops and, from there, one's bus stop and direction of choice scan the bus stop's designated QR code. Granted, they're not the first ones to get into the bus-timing app game. New York is a very tech-savvy and fast-paced city, so it is important for us to have a smartphone app that addresses what our bus customers requested,” said MTA President Carmen Bianco in a statement. And this week, the MTA announced that the tracker, which until now was only accessible through a web browser, is now available as a smartphone app. It's been over a year since the MTA finished its city-wide rollout of MTA Bus Time-a real-time service that tracks busses using GPS.
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