Re:Real-time UK Bus Data Ruby Gem
by tomaisthorpe on Sunday May 19, 2013 @12:38PM
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In Leeds, First Bus do give real-time info. Wonder why it's different here...
Re:Real-time UK Bus Data Ruby Gem
by UnoriginalGuy on Sunday May 19, 2013 @12:54PM
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Do they have competition in Leeds?
Either way, the local council could have forced them to.
From what I've been told they don't provide this data because they don't want people to figure out how late their services run, and that information could also be used by local councils to do performance analysis (since local council subsidies their services massively, making competition impossible, assuming competition could get a licence at all).
Basically the local bus company acts in a selfish way and we all get to stand in the rain for an extra ten minutes as a direct result of that.