

If you’re unfamiliar with Citymapper, it’s basically a mobile app that rose to prominence in London with its user-friendly interface that merges multiple transport options to help you find the most effective route to reach your destination. Since its launch back in 2011, Citymapper has landed in dozens of cities globally, including New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Tokyo, and it has gone on to raise around $50 million in funding. Citymapper has now been approved and fully licensed by Transport for London (TfL) to launch its first commercial bus route, the CM2, which will serve East London on the weekends from 9 p.m.

The initial tinkering was entirely experimental, and, importantly, the company wasn’t licensed to operate commercially - meaning the service was offered for free.
