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Tony Dragon · May 11th 16, 07:32 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On 11/05/2016 10:06, Recliner wrote:
wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2016 17:50:25 +0100
Mizter T wrote:
On 10/05/2016 14:18, d wrote:

On Tue, 10 May 2016 12:25:19 +0100
MikeS wrote:
Went to use the mobile bus countdown website this morning and found it
wanted to redirect me to TfL's shiny new site. This is probably great on
an Android tablet or a Windows 10 PC but it is a disaster on my work
Blackberry. Unfortunately I am stuck with that but use it all the time
to check buses during the day.

For the moment it can still get to the old, largely text site which
works really well but it seems that will be turned off next month. Even
on a modern phone I can see problems with all the extra data to download
as much of Greater London seems to have vast holes in its 3G coverage
(at least on O2) - especially when you are on a bus or train.

Any suggestions for getting TfL to keep the old site going for those of
us without the latest gizmos and unlimited fast mobile data?

They should just save the money and redirect any bus timetable queries to the
fiction section of Waterstones website.

A comment that rather suggests you didn't read, or more likely didn't
understand the original post. It's about live bus times aka Countdown. I
imagine you find the system useless, but only because you've never
actually used it.

Correct - I've never used countdown from a mobile but I assume it uses the
same data as the display at stops which I've often found to be a rough guide
at best. This isn't TfLs fault - they can't help it if a bus gets stuck in
traffic, but it does make the whole bus times system a lot of effort for a
dubious return IMO.

I've used Countdown apps on my phone and find they're usually fairly
accurate. But occasionally a bus seems to be missing from the virtual
world, but turns up anyway. I assume it must be a transponder fault.

I have been on a bus when the driver had a call asking him where he was
as he was not on the system.

He was asked to reboot the system at the next safe place he couls stop.

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