“Bus Time is so helpful to our customers that we have scheduledĪn extremely aggressive timetable to introduce it to three otherīoroughs,” wrote Fernando Ferrer, the MTA’s acting (and reluctant)Ĭhairman in a press release issued today. MTA calls its real-time bus tracking tools (and that’s trademarked, soīack off, other cities!), since 2012, as have a small handful of routesīut now, the MTA is announcing, we have dates for the rest of the Staten Island riders and those in the Bronx have had Bus Time, as the
Chicago’s had it since at least 2009, as has Washington, D.C. Bus clocks are devices mounted in bus shelters themselves that alert passengers to arrival times-but those probably won't happen anytime soon, so don't hold your breath.Philadelphia bus riders got real-time tracking in 2011. Mind you, Bus Time and bus clocks are not the same thing. Passengers can get bus info on the web or their smartphones by clicking, or by texting an intersection, street address or bus stop code to "511123" from any cell phone.
Bus Time was already in place for the M34 and the M34A.īusTime uses data from GPS devices mounted in the buses, which is then sent to the MTA server and integrated with location data and route info. The new trackable buses join 21 routes in the Bronx and 20 on Staten Island that connect to Manhattan, with the service expected to expand to all Manhattan-bound Queens and Brooklyn buses in the next six months, according to the MTA. Manhattanites can now rest easy knowing that any bus on the island is trackable by smartphone, web or text message, thanks to the MTA's rapidly expanding BusTime service.
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