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Public transit!!!!! Yes there is one and I love it. It's called Bimba and it's in its earliest stages. Listen, I used Transit sit as well. It's flawless. But it runs through play services and gmaps. Using organic maps/open street map based location services takes your location data away from the tech oligarchy and puts it back into your individual ownership. With that said, if you use the transit app your erasing that data gain and handing it right back to the tech ogarchy.
Bimba really needs users in order to be successful in its early stages. Use the first option when you go to select your map and transit services, that is if you're unfortunately also an American right now. Expect some bugs and issues when learning it. That smoothens out. Always make sure to pinpoint your location on the map first. Always favorite your frequent transit stops for instant loading. There's a lot of other transit map database options but I confirmed my city worked with only the first option. Again I swear it's dependable once your usual stops are all favorited, it gets situated enough to quickly pinpoint you and you get the right databases setup. I hope Bimba works for your city!
Hey thanks for sharing this! I'll try Bimba. I'm planning on switching to GrapheneOS soon so the less stuff reliant on G services the better, as much as I like the Transit app.
Edit seems like it's a bit limited on its coverage, with little to speak of in the US :(
Was hoping to get Chicagoland metro area transit.
Dang that's unfortunate! Well transit is still very valid. Yeah I guess I was in like one of two cities or so it supports. I got really lucky. But transit only had theee minor trackers on it. It just uses googlemaps. I found it to be the best app for transit though. Bimba can't compare due to it being so early on. But yeah it looked like Bimba was mostly for Europe and for some reason they like my city.