Halifax! Hello from your friends at Transit. We know you guys have been having quite the winter — countless inches of snow and all. Which is fun when you’re building a snow palace… but not that fun when you’re stuck at your bus stop, waiting and waiting with no idea when it’s coming.

NO LONGER! Halifax Transit just published its GTFS-RT feed for the first time ever. If you have no idea what that means don’t worry: it means that we can track your bus’s position in real-time, and make accurate arrival predictions for your stop.

We’ve just integrated it into our app Transit, the largest public transportation app in Canada. In addition to having the most accurate transit data for Halifax (and Dartmouth — we’d never forget you, Dartmouth), our app gives you all the information you need without having to type in directions. Simpler, sexier, and Canadianer™ than Google Maps.

I mean, just take a look at this beauty:

ETAs and bus positions both! Not too bad eh?

A few other things you can do with Transit:

plan trips

get reminded when to leave for your stop (using your distance from the stop, and your bus’s real-time position.)

to leave for your stop (using your distance from the stop, and your bus’s real-time position.) get reminded before you arrive at your stop (in case you fall asleep from a donair-coma)

at your stop (in case you fall asleep from a donair-coma) get notified when service disruptions affect your transit route 😅

get notified if (for whatever reason) your bus is going off on a strange detour

We’re super excited to finally have real-time data for our tens of thousands of users in Halifax! And if you’re not one of them yet… here’s why you should be.

Less time waiting for buses. More time for donairs.

(And Moosehead 👋😎👋 )

Have a good one.