Time for another public app to not be open source and cost millions of £s in development again I imagine.

This website can sometimes help with working out whether something works without Google Play Services https://plexus.techlore.tech/ | https://github.com/techlore/Plexus-app?tab=readme-ov-file

That’s where a good bus network would help and infrastructure built less around cars would make shorter distances more likely for other means like cycling/walking.