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Old September 12th 06, 12:17 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport,uk.transport.london
Richard Fairhurst Richard Fairhurst is offline
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Default ANNOUNCE: PlanAJourney - The BEST UK Journey Planner

Iain Wilkie Logan wrote:
1. The planner does not contain details of local buses in England and Wales
and can only be used in its full multi-modal capacity for journeys wholly
within or between Scotland, Northern Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle
of Man. For both timetable and fares information we can only display the
information that we can source.


If you're feeling adventurous, you could source local bus information
by downloading timetable PDFs off (say) Arriva/Stagecoach/First's
website, and scraping them to extract the times.

[...]
Worth a visit: http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/ 'Free Our Data Campaign'


Yes, it's depressing that the PT industry treats its
timetable/availability data as a marketable asset, rather than a
publically available dataset which would encourage more people to
travel by bus or train.

Richard