Why Transit Now uses more than one source
What happens behind “2 min” — and why one source is never enough.
You're at the stop. It's cold. You open your transit app and it says: no predictions. Or it shows a time that quietly stopped updating.
I've been building Transit Now for Toronto riders since 2011. That moment is the one I care about most.
More sources, better answers
Transit Now doesn't rely on a single source. We combine multiple sources, including official TTC data, into one arrival time — the most accurate, up-to-date one we can give you.
If one source has a gap, another fills it. If one goes quiet, the others keep your arrivals coming. You just see the next bus.
You shouldn't have to wonder if the time on your screen is real.
What you see
None of this is something you have to think about. Open a stop and the next bus counts down by the second, moving along the map toward you. Red means it's right there. Green means you've got time.
In Boston and the East Bay, arrivals come straight from the MBTA's and AC Transit's official real-time feeds.
If a stop near you keeps coming up empty, tell me: support@transitnowapp.com.