I’ve recently started commuting to the city for school and I’m trying to figure out which method of “tracking” the bus is the best and which schedule is the most accurate.
Texting the stop number to the MyBus app doesn’t always work as I’ve had busses be at the stop in 2 minutes after I checked, even though it wasn’t showing that it would be at the stop the last 10 times I had checked in the past 30 minutes.
Google maps will tell me to hop on one bus and transfer to another, while the NJT bus schedule says I can take a different bus all the way to my destination which has confused me. I’m not sure which one to trust.
The trip planner on NJT doesn’t have accurate times which I’ve learned, but that made sense since I’m assuming it’s more of an estimate and there’s a lot of variability with public transportation.
Also a stop closer to me isn’t listed on the NJT app and I’m not sure how to input that stop into NJT. When I put in the street name nothing shows up.
Finally, when I try and track the bus with the NJT app MyBus, all I get every time is an error message saying that an error has occurred while processing my request. I’ve tried multiple times in an hour, at all points during the day and all I get is that error message. I’ve checked to make sure that my selected bus does in fact travel to the destination I input, so I can’t seem to figure out what I’m doing wrong.
Thank you!