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lMy friend and I decided to take a trip on the train and purchased our tickets on the app. We arrived at the station and boarded the train, just as soon to find out from the lady commentating that the train would be stopping for service at a city before our stop and wasn’t even going to our destination. We didn’t want to get stuck in a random city unsure of if there would be any connecting trains there available to take us to our destination, so we frantically got off the train. When purchasing our tickets there was nothing on the app to tell us that the train we had purchased tickets for wasn’t even going to the place we bought them for, so we had no clue of this until right when we stepped on the train. Not only was our morning ruined, but they denied our refunds and kept our money, because “ Planned service disruptions (i.e. track maintenance), are not eligible for compensation” I would normally agree with this, but the problem is when purchasing our tickets there was nothing letting us know there would even be a planned service disruption. If we knew this, we just wouldn’t have bought the tickets in the first place.

This app shows a complete disregard for basic convenience. Never in my entire life have I not been able to look at train schedules before purchasing tickets. As well as that, it baffles me that no where on the app is there any indication of the expiration time limit that applies to one way tickets. Had I know that the tickets I was buying for a week in advance would expire at 3 AM the next morning, I would have never used this completely useless app, and my money would not be wasted. This aspect of Metrolink’s ticket buying process itself is completely irrational to me. Why is it that I am unable to buy a ticket for a future trip on this app? My suggestion for Metrolink is to address these issues, otherwise I can’t fathom using this feature any time soon in the future. Overall, an extremely disappointing and frustrating experience. My advice for people considering using this app is to save their time and money, and use a different train service.

This app would be great if it were 1985. They push and push for riders to use the app but with so many people riding to Union Station LA and no support for subway use this is such a waste of time. That and the terrible UI/UX it is actually worse when the conductor comes to check tickets because it takes extra time for people to get out their phone, open the app, etc while he/she waits to scan the digital ticket. I wish Metrolink would spend less time developing a useless app and more time on keeping their trains on schedule. I would gladly use paper tickets in exchange for the trains being on time at least once a week.