TFI Live - Real Time Transport Planner App

I went for a bus a couple of weeks ago - wasn't showing as live or cancelled and wasn't on the map or on BusTimes. 10 minutes after it was due I gave up and started walking home, of course it passed me at the end of the road.

So it seems the possibilities are

• Marked "Live" - is running
• Marked "Live" - is not running
• Not marked "Live" - is not running
• Not marked "Live" - is running
• Marked Cancelled - is cancelled

IDK if anyone has experienced a bus marked "Cancelled" that then showed up, but that would complete the set for this useless system.

Try http://yourstop.info

I'd be very surprised if a bus showing on the map or trip diagram doesn't show. Of course a scheduled bus without live tracking showing up is a different story

I wish they'd fix the start page to just be the map , its with extreme reluctance I use it.

I downloaded that app (was looking for an alternative for the TFI app which I've yet to find) and while the UI is nice, there is a considerable lag in the bus location updating. The bus location is often 5-10 minutes behind where it is in the TFI app. I also found saving stops to be awkward and difficult to access.

I'm still using the TFI app as even with its bad UI it still has the most reliable information, which isn't saying much.

Hopefully the real time in Google Maps is fixed soon. The live bus location is something I've seen in other cities such as Stockholm so it should be possible here too.

Real time has been missing for months now in Google Maps. It can't be that hard to update. It would be great to have a viable alternative to the TFI app. I was in Stockholm a few months ago and you could see the live bus location in Google Maps so the same should be possible here.

I've downloaded a few other apps but none of them have as up to date tracking as the TFI app. They can have considerable lag which isn't much use.

Yes I know that. I'm just surprised they still haven't updated it.

You're talking to a robot.

It’s nothing to do with the app.

The Dublin AVLC system doesn’t seem to be working properly today - the live GPS positions aren’t feeding out.

It's easy to forget but before NTA, things were much worse. Applications for new inter-city bus routes had to be dealt by Dept. of Transport where they would disappear into a void for many months only to be declined because some other operator had a route that was vaguely similar. CIE were happy to let each of their subsidiaries act independently so cross-operator tickets were only for month or annual ticket holders who paid handsomely for it. There was no Leap card (sort of), no fare capping, no cross-operator 90 minute ticket, no website with a combined journey planner and no real-time system.

I'm far from saying that NTA are perfect or even good but they have 30 years of bad management and no investment to catch up and, on top of that, they have very few permanent staff so everyone there is a contractor and could be gone in a few weeks.

i find bustimes.org to be great as you can go onto the map and check is there a bus en route, where is it ? and when is it due at my stop. its a great webpage for that information

It was only the Dublin Bus AVLC that was down. Go Ahead was fine.

TFI's information distribution regarding the (necessarily) extensive service adjustments for the Dublin City Marathon today are a disgrace.

The official list of diversions available on the TFI website and on the app (though useless on the latter as you cannot scroll it) only covers Dublin Bus routes. NO mention of Go-Ahead or other operators services. Seriously, wtf?

Go-Ahead do have information on the affected routes' timetable pages on its own website but they are just a list of stop numbers that are not in service with no narrative or location names. I mean seriously, are we supposed to parse this to figure out what sections in service?

• 17 Diversion
• 26th Oct 2023 onwards
• Please note due to the following event Dublin City Marathon the following diversion will be in place from 08:00am to 18:00 on Sunday 29th of October 2023. 
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• This means these stops will not be in use on the day until the road reopens. Approx. time 18.00 pm. We apologise for the inconvenience this may cause our customers. 
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• Stops affected: 2068, 2010, 2069, 2009, 2070, 2008, 2084, 2007, 767, 2071, 2012, 2082, 867, 2052, 866, 869, 865, 870, 864, 873, 863, 874, 862, 861, 3012, 3011, 2820, 2823, 5032, 2892,1334, 1300, 1335, 1299, 1336, 1120, 1087, 1119, 1088, 1118, 1089, 1090, 2437, 2413, 2436, 2414,m 2435, 2415, 2327, 2451, 2464, 2465, 2466, 2449, 3360, 3358, 3357, 1392, 1391, 1394, 3356, 3355, 3354, 3353, 1409, 1407, 2190, 1406, 1381, 1366

This app is terrible. I was intending to get the 63 today from DL app said 12 mins the app the bus continued to count down so but kept getting stuck. 35 minutes later the bus showed up which was annoying as three 46a went past in the meantime which I could've used albeit with a longer walk to my destination.

The service I intended to use was clearly cancelled but never showed on the app. Another time I used it the service counted as normal until it got to due when it appeared as cancelled.

Two Ls in 'cancelled'...

Just FYI