A new way to see where your local bus is supposed to be

11 comments

1. Hi all, I’m an unemployed web developer. I’ve been working on a web app to make riding local buses less painful to showcase my work and hopefully become a formerly unemployed web developer instead, I wanted something more visually interactive to show bus routes and live vehicle information so I can actually see if the the next bus is around the corner with dealing with extra fancy route planning. Hope you can check it out! [busfinder.fly.dev](http://busfinder.fly.dev)

2. I find it crazy how far behind some richer countries are with this stuff.

   I was living in Ukraine and back in 2016 in Kyiv and other big cities every bus and tram had a GPS tracker. The bus and tram companies had an app that showed you the live actual locations of all the busses and trams, not their guessed position based on the timetable.

   It’s bonkers how one of the poorest countries in Europe had this as a normal thing 8 years ago already and some of the more well off countries don’t have it, or have a crappy version based on timetable times not the actual vehicle location.

   Good luck! I hope it gets you a job 🙂

3. Very nice. What language is it in?

4. Nice! Where did you get the bus location data from? Does it come as actual GPS coordinates?

5. Nice website although Google Maps and the TFI app already have this feature.

   [https://bustimes.org/map](https://bustimes.org/map) shows a map with all bus locations.

6. All buses should operated by conductive magnets. We just need a magnet master.

7. Bustimes.org

8. Looks good

9. Looks good. I can see a few bits that need polish but otherwise it’s nice.

   Have you made the repo available for contributors or are you keeping it closed/potentially monetize etc?

10. Is this tiktok taoisheshue on Reddit?

11. I’ll probably end up using this. I remember using the bus eireann site as late as 2020, and it completely fell over around 5pm with everyone checking it. I assume this has decent caching.

    Map is kind of hitchy and laggy on my PC for some reason. (when zooming/dragging from dublin over to limerick) Don’t know if that’s happened to anyone else, didn’t look at devtools to figure out why.