Like most suburbanites, Janice Monkow-ski, a piano teacher who lives in Danville, California, some 30 miles east of San Francisco, gets around mainly by car. For much of her life, public transit was not even an afterthought. That changed recently when Monkowski, a self-described technophobe, discovered Moovit. When she goes to San Francisco to meet friends or catch the symphony with her husband, the smartphone app lets her plan bus and train trips down to the minute. "Moovit tells me where to walk and how long it might take to catch a bus to get to the train station," Monkowski says. "It had probably been 10 or 15 years since I'd ridden a transit bus."
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