Not a table of arrival times, just one answer: when to walk out the door to catch your bus. Set up your trip once, then just open the page.
Because that’s the question you’re really asking, and an arrival board makes you do the sums: bus in 11 minutes, 5-minute walk, so leave in 6. With one big answer there’s nothing to work out and nothing to get distracted by, which helps everyone and helps a lot if you have ADHD. The idea is Jay Teo’s: he built an app called LeaveNow for his wife’s commute, which cut her commute and waiting by almost 20 minutes each way (AsiaOne).
From LTA’s bus arrival data on DataMall, the same data the bus apps use, through arrivelah, a free service that passes it on. The list of bus stops and the buses at each are from BusRouter SG.
Only the bus stop’s code goes out, to get its arrival times. Your trips are kept in this browser, not in the page’s address and not on any server, so they’re there next time you open it on this phone, and nowhere else. 📍 asks for your location only when you press it, and works out the nearest stops in the page. To work out your walk, where you start and where the stop is go once, while you set up the trip, to OpenStreetMap’s walking route finder, with nothing else to say who you are. The map is OneMap’s, from the Singapore Land Authority: your browser asks it for the map of the area you’re looking at.
Add the page to your home screen: in Safari, Share then Add to Home Screen; in Chrome, the ⋮ menu then Add to Home screen. It opens straight to your trip’s countdown.
Yes. Press ➕ New trip and set up another, like the stop outside school with a walk from your class. Tap a trip’s name to switch between them.
No. It has the public buses on LTA’s data: SBS Transit, SMRT, Tower Transit and Go-Ahead. Campus shuttles, company and condo buses aren’t in it.
LTA lists only the next three buses of each service, so late at night, before the first bus, or when a service isn’t running, there may be none. It checks again every 30 seconds.
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