Another GOOpen the app

A GO Transit schedule app I made for myself

I ride Lakeshore West most days, and by the time I've left the house I've checked the same two routes about ten times.

So I spent a few weekends building the version I wanted, and now I use it every day. It's free, has no ads and doesn't require an account.

Open the app

Why I built it

gotransit.com works. It's just built for someone planning a trip they've never taken before, and that hasn't been me in years. None of what follows is a big deal on its own. Standing on a platform in February, it adds up.

I only ever check the same two routes

So they sit on the home screen, and the platform number sits with them — the one thing I always need once I'm already in the station, and the one thing I could never find.

Open a card for the departures after that one. I use it to work out whether it's worth running.

Searching dropped me at 5 a.m.

Every train I'd already missed, listed first. Here they're dimmed and pushed above the line — still there, out of the way.

And whether that train is actually running lives on a different page than the schedule does, so checking one trip meant reading two and matching them up myself. Here a cancellation stays where it was, struck through, and a delay shows the time the train is now expected.

I just wanted 12-hour times

That one turned into a settings page. Full station names or the short codes, cards already open when the page loads, light or dark or whatever your phone is doing anyway.

You can also switch off the parts of a trip card you never read. I turned off arrival times months ago and haven't missed them once.

Still a work in progress

If something's off, or there's something you want out of it, I'd genuinely like to hear about it — contact@anothergo.ca.

It works on a phone and on a computer, and it opens straight to the schedule.