CTA LAUNCHES NEW BUS TRACKER WEBSITE
The Chicago Transit Authority announced a newly designed The updated Bus Tracker website provides estimated bus arrival times for 129 bus routes, and now provides customers with the following improvements:
- A new, responsive website design allows the website to adapt to whatever device being used – from smartphones to desktop monitors.
- New navigation gestures. Simply pinch to zoom in and zoom out on the map display for more detailed views and information.
- Find stops near you using your phone’s GPS (Global Positioning System); the site will remember what stops you’ve looked up previously, and also allow you to set favorites without requiring you to create an account.
- Modernized mapping features for improved viewing of live buses across the city.
- Behind the scenes, the modern codebase will help the CTA and their vendors iterate more quickly to improve tracking and prediction accuracy.
