Good news for people in Vancouver guessing whether they should walk or take the bus (especially when it’s raining). You can now text the number of the bus stop to 33333 and you’ll get a text back telling you what time the next six buses are coming.
I tried it out, and it seems to work pretty well, except that it looks like it doesn’t tell you buses coming within the minute, as my text told me I had six minutes to wait and a bus came in about 30 seconds. So better not to run from the bus stop right away to get your coffee after you get your text.
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While we’re on the subject of Google, you simply have to tell anyone who takes transit about Google Transit directions.
Fire up Google Maps set your start and end points, then ask for a Public Transit route. All the stops, all the times in one place, it even includes walk times to stops and the SkyTrain! It’s a million miles better than the translink site, and seeing as I requested translink provide their data to Google 8 months ago I’m taking the credit for it! I’d like them to add cycle routes in too, but you can’t have everything.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=habanero+consulting+group&daddr=burnaby&dirflg=r&sll=49.26662,-123.04841&sspn=0.074715,0.188141&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=0&start=0
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