Tuesday 2 June 2009

Electronic displays at Keighley Bus Station are now providing passengers with real-time information about when their services will depart.

People waiting can see a minute-by-minute countdown until their bus leaves. If for any reason the real real-time information isn’t available, the display still shows the bus’s scheduled departure time.

Keighley is the first of West Yorkshire’s eight main bus stations to come on-line with the yournextbus real-time information service as part of a £184k technology update Metro is carrying out with partner ACIS.

Metro's major bus stations in Bradford, Dewsbury, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds and Pontefract and Arriva’s Wakefield Bus Station will all have real-time displays by the end of summer 2009.

Newer bus stations that Metro has built in in Batley, Cleckheaton and Ossett are already show real-time departures on their display boards.

Introduced in September 2006, yournextbus has now sent approaching 5 million texts to passengers telling them when their buses are due. The real-time information is also available on-line and through WAP and on shelter displays at almost 1,000 key stops throughout the county.

Find out more about Metro's yournextbus real-time information service.