Given the city’s increasingly chaotic traffic, public transport is ever more appealing.
But the buses are miserable and the train network, though increasingly comfortable, tricky to decipher.
Schedules are hard to come by – especially in English.
Now, a new free app for Android and Ios breaks it down.
Yangon Trains, published in both English and Myanmar, tells users where and when the trains are running. It works with Google Maps, so users can pinpoint stations easily.
The developer, Saw Ye Maw, said he was inspired by overseas transport apps.
“I currently live in Singapore and transportation app here and quite helpful in daily life,” he said in an email. “But there is no data service for transportation services from officials and other third parties.”
So, in June last year, he asked Myanmar Railways for hard copies of the train times, convert that into a database.
A version of the app for IoS was published in November but it wasn’t available for Android until this month.
Last year, Saw Ye Maw developed and released another app, Yangon Buses, which shows bus routes and location of stops around the city.
Photo / Air-conditioned trains in Yangon / Aung Naing Soe
