Have you ever been to Aamchi-Mumbai ? And still never ever dared to travel in Mumbai Locals or hopped into BEST Red coloured buses? Then your experience in Mumbai isnt authentic.
Life of Mumbaikars revolves around trains and buses.It gives immense pleasure to say that Google India has made available the BEST Bus and Mumbai Local train routes and schedule information on Google Maps.
This info is available both on desktop and on mobile for millions of commuters in Mumbai.
Transit on Google Maps already includes info for Delhi Metro, Bangalore and Pune bus services in India in addition to 450 cities worldwide.
The easy access of this service helps commuters and tourists find their way seamlessly around the city using both trains and buses. As an example, here are the route options from Thane to Siddhi Vinayak Temple.
How to use Google Transit?
It’s easy to plan your trip using Google Transit
Search for information to reach from Place A to B on Google Maps
The result shows a map with the possible route and driving directions for the commuter
Choose the transit option by clicking the train icon (next to the car icon)
Commuters would get first hand information on available routes and the step by step directions including frequency, and travel duration for each leg of the trip in text and on the map.
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This seems to be too generic even though its quite powerful.
I tried a search from Bhatia Hospital to Churchgate Station which gave me only 1 bus.
I tried the same search on http://www.mesn.org/bestbus and it gave me so many other buses, plus it has other options tuned better for the BEST system.
Google’s system is tailored around foreign markets whereas the mesn.org/bestbus systems seems tailored to our cities.
It also has options like just entering a destination when you are at a stop and seeing the buses that reach that destination to quickly see if any of those buses are near you.
It also shows you a stop list and help you get down at your stop if your phone has GPS.
Since Android phones are available for around 8k now and you can get GPRS for less than Rs.100 a month, for regular bus users, this should not be an issue after a few months.