Chicagoist: CTA Bus Tracker System Adds Bus Lines

dan l

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:24:33 -0600

# No. 54B – South Cicero # No. 55A – 55th/Austin # No. 55N – 55th/Narragansett # No. 62 – Archer # No. 62H – Archer/Harlem # No. 63W – West 63rd ......for all those retirees who use the information super high way to check up on their buss. I can just hear my grandmother calling me now. Poor woman is still scared shitless that she ended up on the google maps.

Scooter Libbby

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:37:45 -0600

Clark, Broadway, Sheridan & the rest of the routes that are out of the North Park garage will be the last buses to get bus tracker. These are easily the most screwed up routes in the city, other than Cottage Grove on the South Side. I once waited an hour for a northbound Broadway about 18 months ago. I would have walked home, but I had a bum leg at the time & just waited & waited at Thorndale.

Kevin

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:44:04 -0600

matty, As mentioned in the article: "There is even a text-based site for mobile phones."

matty

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:51:40 -0600

How are you supposed to use it if you don't have the internet? Can you access via cell phone?

celerysalt

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:05:00 -0600

clark? clark bus please? granted, it's the theater of the absurd, and theaters of the absurd need extra time to pull their absurdity around town, but it would be great to get a heads up on just where the hell the theater of the absurd is when it comes up missing, which is frequently.

smussy

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:01:54 -0600

yes, yes, yes. i live at argyle and oakley, and this will help me with the western bus SOOO much. if this works this will be SO mega sweet, and will prevent the heartache of watching a bus pass me by and leaving me to think ... 'if only i hadn't peed before i left the house.'

PengIn

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:40:13 -0600

Wait, you're skeptical as to whether or not this represents and increase in the level of service? As someone who has spent many an hour waiting for the bus, let me assure you that if this works, it's quite possibly the greatest thing to happen to public transportation ever.