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Another feature I want is "money is no object mode" when travelling around new york city. Sometimes it's fastest to take the subway, sometimes it's fastest to take a Lyft/Uber, but sometimes it's fastest to take the subway part of the way, and then take an uber from there. This last situation is really tough to figure out by hand with the existing tools.


Here you go: https://www.uber.com/blog/new-york-city/uber-copter/

I promise it's almost always the fastest (I knew someone who had corporate access to it for big clients).


In general there would also be a use for optimizing time vs cost.

In all driving apps you either take all tolls or none. It should be possible to optimize cost vs time saved, taking some tolls (which gain you enough time to justify their cost), but not all.


Citymapper does this. It sometimes works in London: the app supports NYC but I don't know if either the feature is supported or if it's functional.

When you've set your start and destination scroll down and there's a section called "multimodal labs".




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