Riders telling each other where the bus actually is.
Bus Pulse shows the next buses from the stop you're standing at — and when someone up the line sees their bus pull in, one tap passes that on to everyone waiting ahead of them. Official feeds can only tell you what the operator reports. We can tell you what the person two stops back just saw.
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One tap, and you've helped a stranger
Your bus pulls in, you tap once. Everyone waiting at the stops ahead sees that it's really on its way — not that a timetable says so.
And when it never comes
Time came and went, nothing turned up? One tap says so, and the people waiting ahead find out instead of hoping. No official feed can report a bus it was never tracking.
Anonymous, and it stays that way
No account, no profile, no name, no message. Nothing to sign up for and nothing about you to share. Just the fact that a bus was seen.
It never overrides the official time
A report tells you where a bus was seen and when. It never rewrites the arrival time to look more confident than it is — you're told what's known, and you decide.
Honest when nobody knows
If no one is tracking a bus and nobody has reported it, you get the scheduled time marked as scheduled. Cancellations stay on the board instead of quietly vanishing.
What I'm asking of testers
Two things. Use it on your normal commute and tell me the first time it's wrong — there's a "Something wrong here?" link on every screen that fills in the details for me. And when your bus pulls in, tap the report button. It takes a second, it's anonymous, and it's the whole point: the app is only as good as the people standing at the stops before yours.