Welcome to BCTracker!

Following the great success of BCTracker, we've decided it's time to expand to new territory. The most obvious choice of course is our neighbours to the east, so without further ado we're very pleased to announce the launch of ABTracker!

Like BCTracker, ABTracker pulls together transit data from a bunch of larger communities in Alberta into one place, making it easy to see buses running all over the province. The following agencies/systems are supported as of this initial launch:

• Calgary Transit (Calgary)
• Edmonton Transit Service (Edmonton)
• Grande Prairie Transit (Grande Prairie)
• Lethbridge Transit (Lethbridge) (no realtime)
• Medicine Hat Transit (Medicine Hat)
• Red Deer Transit (Red Deer) (no realtime)
• Roam (Banff)
• Woosh (Fort McMurray)

We hope you find ABTracker useful as we all inevitably move to Alberta for cheaper housing!

UPDATE:

So, despite intending for this to be a one-day April Fools joke, a lot of people really want ABTracker permanently! It turns out we were the fools all along for not anticipating this...

Instead of taking down the website at the end of the day, we're instead going to leave it available but advertised as being in beta, which means that some stuff could still break or get changed at any time. Please see the ABTracker about page for more info.

Happy new year! We're kicking things off with a very exciting announcement: BCTracker is adding support for more transit agencies in BC!

We imagine that the first question coming to many minds is "Do you now support TransLink"? The answer is not yet, but hopefully we can get there in the future. For now we're starting with a few small agencies without realtime tracking, to ease ourselves in and have time to iron out any issues before taking on something bigger. The initial new systems/agencies are:

• Denman Island - operated by Denman Island Bus
• Gabriola Island - operated by GERTIE
• Hornby Island - operated by Hornby Bus

If you happen to live in or visit one of these places, we hope you find BCTracker useful!

In other news, plenty of other improvements have been made since our previous post, including:

• Bus occupancy status
• Time since each bus position was last updated
• Stop list filtering and sorting
• Various layout and style updates

Enjoy, stay safe, and have a great year!