Real Time updates for MUNI busses?
It seems like it happens more times than not. When I need to catch a MUNI, I’ll go online to the MTA website, type in my starting address, destination address and what time I’m looking to leave. I go outside to the MUNI stop a few minutes before the bus is supposed to arrive. I’m standing there for a few minutes and…nothing. The scheduled time comes and goes with no bus. Maybe it comes 10 minutes after the scheduled time, maybe 15, maybe never. Isn’t there a way to incorporate some kind of “Real Time” into the MTA website? So, if a bus is supposed to arrive at 5:59pm but it’s stuck in traffic or had problems loading or off-loading – whatever – the website will update that? It doesn’t seem like it would be that much trouble to get that system going. It seems a bit archaic as it is now, simply giving a standard time that a bus is “supposed” to arrive but not accounting for other issues. It gets cold waiting out there sometimes…