On 19/06/2014 14:18, ken wrote:

Mizter T wrote:

On 18/06/2014 13:31, ken wrote:
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The eternal problem that anyone waiting for a bus needs to solve is that
if the service is supposedly every X minutes and the peson has been
waiting X x 3 minutes, does it mean that a bus is going to come at any
moment or does it mean that a disaster or event has occurred and the bus
is not coming at all.

The fantastic TfL Countdown service normally gives a pretty good
estimate of the arrival time of the next bus, if you're in that
situation.

Despite East Croydon being a major bus interchange there is no countdown
service operating there.

The Countdown service operates everywhere in Greater London and beyond
(across all TfL bus routes), but there are only public display signs at
selected stops - though why East Croydon's bus stops haven't (yet) been
included I can't say.

Countdown can be accessed via...x
http://countdown.tfl.gov.uk/

....the mobile version of the site is...
http://m.countdown.tfl.gov.uk/

....via a text (SMS) response service...
https://www.tfl.gov.uk/modes/buses/live-bus-arrivals#on-this-page-1

....and via many different apps for smartphones & mobile devices (the
underlying realtime data is free to access).