metroNotify

MTM Melbourne

About this app

The app allows you to personalise Metro’s live service updates to receive the information you want at the times that you need it.

Some of the features include:

- My Trips allows you set up your stations as well as lines so you can receive the next four timetabled services from your chosen stations and will show alerts for your chosen lines

- Next Four departures are shown for your trip stations. You can toggle between trip stations to see departures in both directions. Up-to-date departure information is displayed, providing expected departure times.

- Travel Alerts will provide push notifications for travel updates to your line at your selected travel times.

- A Morning Update which assures you that your selected line/s is running a good service

Ratings and reviews

I like the idea of this app but it seems to just bombard you with notifications for every single service change that happens on every line. Would be great if we could choose which lines we want notifications for and set a frequency of notifications so that it's not telling me the same things every 5 minutes.

Works great, bit with minor nitpicks. The journey creator cannot be customised, it only works on single lines. For eg. if you take the train to another city loop station that isn't visited between it and Flinders St., it won't let you create that journey. But you could easily use a close-enough station so not a deal-breaker. I like the option to only receive notifications on weekdays.

This app has one job: notify you of travel-related events you care about. It is unreliable at best at even doing this. A few suggestions also. 1) Giving the option to set alert times is great, however it would be better if this was customisable. Not everyone works the same hours and people need different information depending on their situation. 2) Following on from this, being able to choose the "severity" of notifications would be great too. I don't really care if there's a good service, it just clogs up my notifications with redundant information and I end up dismissing important updates because they're too frequent. A nice experience would be to only flash up a notification when there's something I need to know about. 3) A lot of people will use more than one form of transport to get somewhere (i.e. train, tram) so updates about a train line only aren't always going to tell the complete story of how your trip looks.

What’s new

Support for East Pakenham station added