The CTA/Google Bus Tracker

[rdolan]

I know this has been up for awhile, but I just started using it. I love it though I hear it's not always super accurate.

CTA Bus Tracker (http://www.ctabustracker.com/bustime/home.jsp)

[Jeebee]

I would say (for me at least) its is accurate 90% of the time. Extreme weather will screw the estimates up but I would expect that.

I like it...

[sammy]

It's been pretty rock solid for me excepting for one late-night misfire. I love it and, from my experiences, give it a hearty thumbs up.

They'll be adding the 22 Clark and 36 Broadway to it, and I'm willing to bet those will be way wonky on the tracker....

[stetsko]

In my experience it's more likely to lose a bus that's coming than to say one is coming, when it's not. It's probably saved me $200 in cab fare over the last 4 months.

[DennisOT]

I think the bus tracker is fabu"bus."

No, for real. I Route 11 that shit all fucking day. I have two computers in my stronghold because I am hella rich. Like, more-sweaters-than-days-in-a-week rich. "Must be nice." It is. Anyway, my old computer-- which I bought in the Zero-Zero, and is a Dell but I wish was a Wang based on name quality-- is pretty much solely a 24-hour Route 11 Monitor sitting in the middle of my living room. (For those of you who live with your parents and borrow the station wagon to get to Morrie Mages, Route 11's the Lincoln Avenue route.) I feel like a supervillian, monitoring the airducts for fools trying to infiltrate my estate. Sex.

[speedymarie]

I live on the Damen line, which is never on schedule. The bus tracker means that I can go outside as the bus is coming around the corner.

It has lost buses before though, which is annoying. The other day, it told me I had 20 minutes before there was a bus, so I left my house 10 minutes early to go to the corner store before the bus came, and saw a bus going past my house. But other than those occasional screwups, it is indeed remarkable.

I just wish I could text something and get a text message back telling me when the next buses are, since I don't have 'net on my phone.

[rdolan]

I don't have one, but this is a link (http://cta.growinglogic.com/) to use CTA Bus Tracker App for your iPhone.

[Rex]

Oh my. I always read it as Chicago T/A Bust Racker. I like it less now.

[sammy]

So, Rex, you're saying you like your busts racked as opposed to unracked?

[Rex]

So, Rex, you're saying you like your busts racked as opposed to unracked?

Yes. When you see them you realize they are the sexy you forgot, like a (ladies') one-piece bathing suit (on a lady).