Here’s one thing about penang buses, you’ll find yourself waiting for bus for long time because of the low bus frequency. In Penang, the buses are operated by Rapid Penang. Take a look at Rapid Penang official schedule, you’ll see that in average 20-30 minutes frequency. That means if a bus just passes by your bus stop, you’ll have to wait 20-30 minutes for the next bus.
\nIn addition, the bus arrives at different time every day. You can’t set the same time everyday for you to start going from home. More often you’ll miss the bus if you do that.
\nApp like Moovit is useful to find out what bus route to take to reach your destination. It gives you few route options that you can take. Moovit also tells you the time of next bus to arrive at a bus stop, however the arrival time is not accurate and can be misleading. There are number of times when I waited cluelessly because I rely on Moovit arrival time. Maybe Moovit uses official schedule from Rapid Penang, which in reality the bus never on time. So take notice.
\nBased on information on Rapid Penang twitter, Rapid Penang is building a Journey planner app. Everyone will be able to use this app to know when the bus shall arrive in a bus stop they choose. At this moment the Journey planner website is live but not fully functional. Hopefully either the mobile app or the website will be working anytime soon.
\nI’ll post once Rapid Penang Journey Planner app is up and running.
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