Credit: Rita El Khoury / Android AuthorityTL;DRGoogle Maps has updated its public transit navigation to allow full map access during trips.Users can now search, browse, and reroute without cancelling or restarting their current journey.Plus, new walking directions feature includes pedestrian incident reporting like crashes or slowdowns.Google Maps walking and transit guidance has been pretty abysmal for years now. People like me, who don’t own a car and rely on their feet and public transport, have had to accept a subpar experience that doesn’t come anywhere near driving directions, with no easy way to check out Maps without leaving the ongoing trip. Now, Maps is rolling out an update that brings a big change to public transit navigation, and I noticed it yesterday on my phone as I was zooming through Paris to get to a theatre. Let me walk you through the changes.Transit navigation no longer locks out the rest of MapsMy biggest pet peeve when using public transit directions on Google Maps is how inflexible this used to be. Start navigation, and there was no way to rethink or adjust routes mid-trip if there was an unexpected delay or incident, or if I had to change my destination last-minute. If I was underground with a poor GPS signal, I had to stop navigation, look for a new destination, manually input my starting point, and hope for the best.