Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)
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Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)
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Re: Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)
#2Might be nice to filter it to show only those buses which are available in the next hour or two - there's no need to display night buses during the day and vice versa.
Re: Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)
#3Might be nice to filter it to show only those buses which are available in the next hour or two - there's no need to display night buses during the day and vice versa.
Exactly what I thought. Its also a long way short of what you need to plan a journey that involves changing buses.
Where I live it looks like I could do a lot by bus looking at just the routes, but they are infrequent and unreliable so I usually have to drive everywhere.
Re: Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)
#4Might be nice to filter it to show only those buses which are available in the next hour or two - there's no need to display night buses during the day and vice versa.
Exactly what I thought. Its also a long way short of what you need to plan a journey that involves changing buses. Where I live it looks like I could do a lot by bus looking at just the routes, but they are infrequent and unreliable so I usually have to drive everywhere.
Unreliable? Seriously?
(I’m not from the UK, it sounds surprising.)
Re: Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly what I thought. Its also a long way short of what you need to plan a journey that involves changing buses. Where I live it looks like I could do a lot by bus looking at just the routes, but they are infrequent and unreliable so I usually have to drive everywhere.
Unreliable? Seriously? (I’m not from the UK, it sounds surprising.)
Sadly yes. Some bus companies are very reliable (traffic jams permitting), but there are definitely times when they aren't, and I've used rural routes where the hourly bus might just not turn up, which makes them completely infeasible for commuting or appointments.
To replace cars with buses for trips you really need them to be rock solid.
Re: Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)
#6Might be nice to filter it to show only those buses which are available in the next hour or two - there's no need to display night buses during the day and vice versa.
Exactly what I thought. Its also a long way short of what you need to plan a journey that involves changing buses. Where I live it looks like I could do a lot by bus looking at just the routes, but they are infrequent and unreliable so I usually have to drive everywhere.
Google Maps is excellent for bus planning for me.
Depends on your local bus company feeding times in to them though.
Re: Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)
#7Some of things it shows for Manchester are not buses (i.e. metrolink). Where does the data come from?
Edit: also Flixbus or National Express are arguably not a bus services either
Re: Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly what I thought. Its also a long way short of what you need to plan a journey that involves changing buses. Where I live it looks like I could do a lot by bus looking at just the routes, but they are infrequent and unreliable so I usually have to drive everywhere.
Unreliable? Seriously? (I’m not from the UK, it sounds surprising.)
It depends where you are, some areas have very good bus services and other terrible ones. Almost everywhere has been forbidden from having a more centralised approach and so most places are a mash of random companies with very different approaches and reliabilities.
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Re: Show HN: Buslens – where can I get to by bus? (UK)
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unreliable? Seriously? (I’m not from the UK, it sounds surprising.)
Sadly yes. Some bus companies are very reliable (traffic jams permitting), but there are definitely times when they aren't, and I've used rural routes where the hourly bus might just not turn up, which makes them completely infeasible for commuting or appointments. To replace cars with buses for trips you really need them to be rock solid.
Yeah I think the most stressed I've ever been about punctuality was when I was dependent on a rural bus to get to work on time. I love rural Britain but if you can't drive for whatever reason, it's often not feasible to live there.