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You can see the electronic countdown for any bus stop online now, using your Smartphone. Even works for obscure stops that don't have or never had screens.


Go to http://m.countdown.tfl.gov.uk/ (or use one of the prettier Android/iPhone apps like Citymapper).


I think this is how they're intending people to get this info in the future, rather than installing any more screens.

Townleygreen Wrote:

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> you don't need a smartphone...just the ability to

> send and receive texts!


xxxxx


Are you sure?


The tfl app definitely needs a smartphone. It locates the phone, then lists bus stops near it (or shows them on a map).


When you click on the appropriate bus stop, it lists bus numbers and the time they are due at that stop.


I haven't found it totally reliable. Yesterday a 484 arrived five to ten minutes before tfl had said, so luckily we were early at the bus stop.


Is there something else which works by texts?

Look at any bus stop. The pole with the timetable and the stop letter


There will be a sticker with a text number and a short code to send


It texts back the times


The bus stop terminals, the smartphone apps the texts all use the same data. Some routes like 37 and 484 are more erratic. Don't know if that's down to drivers updating base at random or if it's traffic related


But all are infinitely better than just a few years ago when we had nothing

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