Introducing Vaccélérateur: a bot that finds last-minute appointments across Québec — so you can get your vaccine in days, not weeks ♥️ — The light at the end of the tunnel is closer than you think! The current wait time for vaccine appointments in Québec can be as much as a few weeks — with the official government site showing many sites with no available appointments. But it’s possible to get a shot…

America’s transportation fund is bankrupt. Public transit is on life support. Can Biden save America from its Elvis-era transportation policy? — Right about now, Joe Biden is walking the old rooms of the White House like a weary landlord, eyes scrunched up like fists, surveying the “improvements” made by the last tenant. In one room, next to the pyramid of empty coke cans and the greasy Big Mac wrappers carpeting the…

Our newest batch of cities is soo continental. Welcome Belgium 🇧🇪 + Netherlands 🇳🇱 + Luxembourg 🇱🇺 + Spain 🇪🇸. Or as we like to say, BeNeLuxSpa 💆‍♀️ — The most cooperative triumverate in the history of countries, the Netherlands and Belgium and Luxembourg are not just models of unity… trade blocs… great tulip gardens… waffles… or flamboyant investment banker neckties. Their cities are quickly becoming car-free utopias.

Riders in 35 cities (with more on the way) are using Transit’s new in-app crowding feature: it lets them self-report crowding levels on their bus and train. — It’s wild times. The world keeps vacillating from “chaos” to “worse” before briefly flitting back to “kind of okay”. In the middle of it all, there’s millions of us, continuing to pantomime a normal life — taking the buses and trains to get to work, to take care of family…

You can now purchase fares for STM, RTL, STL, and exo buses — as well as BIXIs! — with one account in Transit — We live in a time where every mundane outing is injected with so much stress. The pocket-tap to make sure you’ve got your phone and keys? It now includes a quick check for face masks (and that leaky bottle of hand sanitizer that smells like gasoline-infused tequila). The ultimate in…

Tu peux maintenant acheter des titres de bus STM, RTL, STL, exo — et des passes BIXI — dans Transit avec un seul et unique compte — On vit dans une période où la moindre petite sortie est accompagnée d’une bonne dose de stress. Pas question d’oublier tes clés, ton cell, mais aussi ton masque pis ta petite flasque de gel désinfectant (celui qui sent le limoncello et qui ne laisse pas tes doigts tous gluants).

Transit riders want to know how crowded their vehicles are. One problem: that data didn’t exist in most cities. Now it has arrived. — Transit ridership took a sinus-rattling swan dive this winter. (There was this whole thing…) Now, as the pond water slowly drips out of our ears, more and more of us are returning to public transit. Some by choice; some out of necessity. Whether you’re hopping on the bus to rendezvous…

Picking the wrong entrance can put you blocks from where you want to go. Now, you can find the right entrance every time 😎 — It doesn’t matter what city you’re in. Trying to navigate an unfamiliar station is hard, especially when a transfer’s tight: neck crooked, arms upraised, searching for platform signs in a frenzy. Like you’re the protagonist in a bad B-movie zombie flick. Enter COVID-19, messing things up further: now some agencies…

Millions continue to ride buses and trains. We surveyed them: of course they’re essential workers. They’re also mostly female, people of colour, and poorly paid. — During a single week in March, our app usage dropped 30%. By week two, it was down 70%. Then it bottomed out: for the past few weeks, our app Transit has been holding steady, with usage down 77% below normal. That’s 77% fewer people taking the bus, the train, bikeshare…