Peter Lawrence wrote to uk.transport.london on Tue, 28 Sep 2004:

Am I just unlucky or is the real time information displayed atbus
stops always fictional, meaning it has little relation to which buses
actually arrive and when?

Some and some. I read somewhere that Ken Livingstone isn't happy with
Countdown in its present form, for that very reason, and it will be
replaced with some kind of upgraded service.
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"Mrs Redboots"
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