A popular real-time travel and map app is offering a new and unexpected feature that is exciting New Yorkers—rat tracking.Transit is a mobile app that provides real-time public transport data, giving users schedules and travel alerts.As well as the ability to see which trains are delayed, pick up a ride share or avoid a packed station, Transit has introduced its new rat tracker.
Participants generally disliked encountering rats, raising issues of health and safety for themselves and the community due to the belief that rats carry disease.New York is all too aware of the rat problem, too. In April, New York's Mayor Eric Adams appointed its first 'rat czar,' Kathleen Corradi.With a $3.5 million budget to reduce the city's rat population, the rodents were described as 'public enemy number one.