11-20-2014, 04:00 PM
Is it just me or is the GRT Real Time map misleadingly useless? The main thing I want to know is what time the next buses are going to be at my stop. It took me two weeks to figure out that when you click on a stop on the "real time" map, the posted arrival times are still the scheduled arrival times - it doesn't use the real time data at all. (Same goes for the Transit app which boasts 'real time' data for GRT).
Ok, so I'll scroll down the map in the direction that the buses are coming from (which assumes users know what direction their buses are coming from), find the next bus, click on it, hope it's going in the direction I want to go. Except inevitably it says that the next 3 stops are all "less than 1 minute" away (apparently GRT can get from the Charles St Terminal to Sportsworld in under 1 minute!). So there's no way to tell when the buses are actually arriving at my stop.
Right now for instance I see two northbound iXpresses bunched up at King & University, both are "1 minute" away from Laurier, UW, and R&T Park, and the R&T Park stop shows the next buses in 4, 14, and 24 minutes.
Ok, so I'll scroll down the map in the direction that the buses are coming from (which assumes users know what direction their buses are coming from), find the next bus, click on it, hope it's going in the direction I want to go. Except inevitably it says that the next 3 stops are all "less than 1 minute" away (apparently GRT can get from the Charles St Terminal to Sportsworld in under 1 minute!). So there's no way to tell when the buses are actually arriving at my stop.
Right now for instance I see two northbound iXpresses bunched up at King & University, both are "1 minute" away from Laurier, UW, and R&T Park, and the R&T Park stop shows the next buses in 4, 14, and 24 minutes.