Ziptrip: Buffalo Grove Natives Develop a New Type of CTA App
Leave your old CTA smartphone app in the dust, because these siblings are focused on making Chicago's commute simpler, and to help with the No. 11 bus cancellation.
Forget the consistently wrong bus schedules and the need to be a seasoned Chicagoan to figure out all the public transportation tricks, because two Lake View siblings have created a tool to make navigating the city a bit more – visual. Shayna Hirsch, 28, and her brother Robert, 31, have spent the last year and a half developing ziptrip, a new smartphone application aimed at smoothing out the sometimes wonky commutes with the Chicago Transit Authority. Unlike current apps with seemingly endless lists of bus stops or a constant need to refresh the app to update the data, the Hirsches, formerly of Buffalo Grove, created an interactive map that recognizes where the commuter is standing in the city and plots out all the area bus stops. “There …
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