We’ve made considerable inroads in the convenience of transport since the horse-drawn heydays of the 1880s, when Saskatoon was founded. Many of those inroads have been helped along by advances in technology. And one of them is taking place today, in Saskatoon.

Today, our team is proud to announce that Saskatonians now have an app to track their buses in real-time. Saskatoon recently outfitted their buses with GPS-tracking equipment, but there’s been no easy way to access that information on your mobile phone.

There is the Saskatoon Transit website, of course, but when you use it, it takes some effort to find your bus, and look up its estimated arrival time. In the time it’d take to find when your bus was coming, it might’ve already passed you by.

But don’t despair! While Saskatoon Transit didn’t share their real-time data with any third parties (who could have made the process easier), we went ahead, scraped the data ourselves, and integrated it into our app.

And now (with a little help from your friends at Transit App) you can finally see where your bus actually is in real-time, using the GPS coordinates being reported by your bus.

Arrival times for nearby transit options will be displayed front and centre — you won’t even need to enter an address.

So if you’re at your bus stop waiting in the cold, wondering whether your bus will come before spring, or need to escape the company of a verbose acquaintance with a decisive “I’m gonna miss my bus!”, now’s the chance. Transit App will get you all the info you need, faster than anyone else.