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by basisword 234 days ago
Citymapper et al are excellent. The big issue I find is that half the time TFL seems to completely ignore its own bus schedule (at least in my area). You rush for a bus and it leaves 2mins before schedule (and the next one also turns up early). I would rather longer waits and better predictability.
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In my previous town I had a bus so unreliable I'd rather walk 20 minutes in the sub zero temperatures - was supposed to run every ten minutes, but in reality there was no bus for an hour and then 5 in quick succession.
Im thinking it might be better to revisit the project and analyse long term patterns in bus arrivals
What would be the source of truth for verifying that the bus made it to the location on-time/late/early?
Potentially using the live arrivals APIs and seeing when its right now, not 100% it would work but might be worth a shot