The electronic displays at bus stops are so helpful! I don’t know how I ever managed before they were introduced.

by Lover_of_Sprouts

23 comments

  1. Read the bus timetable? Look at your watch? Decide it’d be quicker walking and watch your bus go by when you’re less than half way?

    That’s what I tend to do.

  3. I recommend bustimes.org, best way to see the buses on a map or the real time location data

  4. They are, though the app that tells you where the bus is is even better 🙂

  5. 25 years ago when I had to get buses in a rural area I was lucky if the timetable at a stop was only a year out of date.

  6. I’m wondering how you guys did survive without them 

  7. I use the local bus websites. Usually most accurate. I refuse the apps.

  8. You should have tried living before we had mobile phones.

  9. Mine come on a sign stuck down in a triangle thing, they have numbered buses and the times to where they go, very easy to know where to go and the screen is for late buses or other info that isn’t on the sign

  10. Would be funny if the timetable just said “Please See Display”

  11. I like the ones we have around Newcastle, which are not responsive, so trick you into thinking the bus has gone when it’s actually late or that its still on its way when it’s already gone past.

  12. I just use Google maps. Ive no idea if it accounts for delays or anything (presumably not) but seems accurate enough generally.

  13. I use the Bus Times app (on iPhone but I bet there’s an android version) and it’s excellent. Lots of options to save favourite bus routes or stops.

  14. Sheltered bus stops with actual electronic signs? Fancy. A lot of them where I’m at are literally a pole in the ground with a small paper timetable on.

  16. Those displays are a total game-changer, especially when the weather is bad. I still use a tracking app on my phone as a backup, though, because sometimes the display freezes. It definitely beats the old method of squinting at a tiny printed schedule that’s never accurate. Now I only start my “will I make it?” speed-walk when I know the bus is actually coming.

  17. I had to break this news to a group of non-Brits a couple of months ago waiting for late night buses. They were shocked to learn that the display isn’t in the least bit accurate.

  18. Next step is for them to show correct information 😅 literally on the train now after giving up on the 3rd bus turning up

  19. Our ones fail to boot up properly half the time and end up on a Windows 10 desktop

  21. Without you wouldn’t have a clue what to do Long live technology

  22. The one at my bus stop mostly shows utter gibberish but the occasionally shows bus times which aren’t even correct

  23. I usually have to use the website. Most stops barely have timetables never mind screens here. Even a shelter is a luxury. 

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