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Over the coming days the TfL journey planner is going to be put under severe load. London Bus makes extensive use of the TfL planner and it may take several minutes to get results.
The journey planner may not return results if the TfL server is under severe load. It will wait a maxium of 2 minutes.
If this happens try using the TfL site instead, or as an alternative try the Traveline site South Eastern site [Click Here].
Here’s some quick tips to get the most out of application:
- Plan in advance! The worst time to ask the journey planner for a plan is between 2-6pm. The app will keep 20 journey plan searches in history. When you consider a single search can have many plans in it, this gives you a good number of options. So if you know you are going somewhere early evening plan it in the morning. For morning journeys plan that night.
- Favorite the routes & stops suggested in plans, you can view the route details straight from a plan, when it highlights a stop and it to favorites. That way you can easily come back to unfamiliar stops & routes.
- Some plans may still suggest the Tube! This is down to the TfL engine, delete these plans. Or restrict the journey to the Bus in the main plan screen.
Lastly, email me! I am keeping close tabs on the servers & apps over the next few days and will be sorting out problems as they arise. Let me know if you start having problems. Whilst I can see reviews, they often don’t help me solve problems as the reviews are delayed and lack any details I can use to help get the issue resolved.
Still not happy? Email me and I’ll tell you how to get a refund even though it costs me 
The next versoin of London Bus has been approved, in this version:
Switch From To
Use the arrows in top right of the main plan screen to switch the from and to locations when journey planning.
Route Finder Tab
Easily find a route using the ‘Route’ finder section.
Delete Journey Plans
In the History section, you can now delete individual journey plans or the entire journey.
Favourites
Added instruction label explaining how to save a favourite & that the favourites section is for the saving of bus stops.
Route Details & Journey Plans
Bus route details can now be easily accessed from with a journey plan, tap the bus interchange (leg) and select the ‘Route Details’ button from the action menu. You can also access multiple bus routes in the Leg Details screen by tapping the ‘Route’ button in the top right.
Even though version 1.0 has only been live less than 2 days, I already have an update. I have greatly refined the data and have a done a complete rebuild of the routes, areas (stops) and the routes that run through them. Routes are 100% correct (for at least one direction) as far as TfL published them anyway. I say one direction, because routes can sometimes take a few differing stops upon their return (and some routes even have multiple directions). London Bus does not currently support multiple directions but it is planned for a future release, it needs to be elegant and intuitive. In version 1.1:
- Missing routes added, 599 routes now covered
- Route accuracy increased, 100% accurate (as published)
- Layout & order changes in Find Route & Stop (see pic)
- Speed improvements in Locate
- Locate now shows 10 closest stops
There is a small side effect, not every single bus stop can now be pinned on the Google Map. It does not effect journey planning and you can view all routes no problem. It is purely a data issue effecting no more than 5.6% of stops and is confined to newer route numbers or ones that been recently moved about, 47 routes are partially effected by this. The more established routes are flawless and you should have no problems pinning & tracking every stop along the way. I am working on improving this.
Routes in Version 1.1: London Bus Version 1.1 Supported Routes
Demo of London Bus: Video Demo London Bus 1.0.mov
London Bus has hit the App Store. Apple must be working 7 days a week on approvals in preparation for OS 3, because this was approved on a Sunday (never had that before).
London Bus covers the main daytime & nighttime network, containing more than 560 detailed routes & knows where more than 20,000 individual bus stops are.
