metroNotify 4+

This app demonstrates how a system model can dictate design to the detriment of end-users. This usually happens when developers lead design and there is no User Experience Designer/Research on the team.
In real-world use, a user would enter a daily point of origin & destination regardless of which line(s) it was serviced by. They would specify daily travel periods to ensure alerts did not come through outside those periods (or leading up to those periods).
The system would then be smart enough to know if disruptions affected the portion of the line(s) the user travelled on (they’re not interested in issues affecting the line far beyond their destination).
Needs a good re-think.

This app is rubbish, it has no idea. It's not actually wired into the system like you'd expect it to be, like tram tracker for example, which is brilliant. At a guess it just holds the schedules and unless some operator somewhere MANUALLY adds a notification or a delay, we don't get any updates, add to that the fact that anything 5 minutes or under isn't considered a delay (IT IS, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU RELY ON CONNECTING TRAINS). On the upfield line today at Flemington Bridge station for example it was reporting that the line wasn't experiencing any delays and the 9:31 would arrive on time, that time passed and it moved onto reporting that the next train wasn't experiencing any delays without the 9:31 actually having arriving, minutes passed, there was an inaudible announcement over the speaker system and people were getting worried the train may have been cancelled as NO ONE understood what had been said. This is utterly useless. This app has the potential to be really great as you guys have this information, as at certain stations we get to the minute delays on those overhead boards. WHY DON'T YOU INCORPORATE THIS DATA INTO THE APP. I get daily notifications from this app that are more often than not, completely wrong which means you can't rely on them which makes the whole thing pointless

Just down loaded the app thinking I could get notifications about the trains I generally catch. Unfortunately it looks like the app only goes to train line and station level and you can only select brackets of time in the AM. I have evening commitments, as most people do, so being able to receive alerts about PM services would be useful too. I have the PTV app as well which shows live info about services. Why can’t there be something that combines the aim of both apps so I can set up alerts for my favourite services? For example, it would be useful to receive an alert when the 8:24 from Heathmont is cancelled so I don’t have to hang around for 30mins waiting for the next service. I could instead rush for the 8:15 or laze around the house for another 20mins doing laundry or tormenting my children. I know these seem like insignificant first world problems but that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t have first world expectations. This sort of app would really help a busy girl out.