Bus & Train Times
One page of live departures, built to work on a basic phone with no apps.
Built for a teenager who moved to a basic phone when their school banned smartphones, and still needed to know when the next bus was.
- Do this on a computer or smartphone, not on the basic phone, then send the link across.
- Already have one? Your page is its own long link, something like times.tufan.co.uk/t/izbUUVLSiY42… — usually saved as the phone's homepage. There's no login and no list of pages, so that link is the only way back in.
- To change a route, press Edit at the bottom of the times page itself. It opens setup with the route already filled in, so nothing has to be typed again.
The details
- Free
- No account, no adverts.
- Nothing is stored
- The route is encoded in the link itself, which is why it's long. There's no database, so there's nothing to lose or leak.
- No names
- A page holds bus stops and line numbers, nothing about anyone.
- London buses, national trains
- Buses use Transport for London's live data. Train times work anywhere in Great Britain.
- Kept running, given away as-is
- People rely on this to catch a bus, so it's monitored and kept working. It is still a side project given away for free, though: there's no support desk, and no promise to add what you ask for.