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Busses would be soo much better if there was real time location of busses and trains that you could view on a map. Probably the lowest hanging fruit to pick for public transport improvement.


The MTA has this: https://bustime.mta.info/#B63

The CTA has this: https://www.ctabustracker.com/bustime/wireless/html/eta.jsp?...

Those are the only two cities I've lived in, but the ability to track buses seems widespread to me.


The MBTA in Boston has this as part of their API [0].

[0] https://www.mbta.com/developers/v3-api/streaming




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