Simple IRIS for SBS Bus

Do you frequently travel by bus in Singapore? Do you use SBS bus? Have you ever waited for long time and the bus still hasn’t come yet? Have you ever faced situation when you needed to choose between bus or MRT but you were afraid if you chose bus you would wait for a long time? If all the answers are YES, you should use IRIS. It is small application based on WEB and SMS provided by sbstransit, which provides estimated time specific bus (no) will arrive at specific bus stop (no). What you need in here are BUS NO and STOP NO.

So how about Simple IRIS, what kind of tool is this? It is actually same like web based IRIS provided by sbstransit. It even uses the data from web based IRIS. The benefits compared to web based IRIS:

• Simpler
  It’s based on url, only needs 1 step (insert the url, clik, then you get the result).
• Faster & cheaper
  Your browser only loads 1 page which is plain text, no images at all. If you aren’t using flat plan, more data you download higher you pay

Ok, enough for the preface. So how to use it? As the title of this post, it is very easy to use it. Just type this address/url in your browser :

http://simpledifference.net/bus//

EXAMPLE:
busNo: 111
stopNo: 09048 (bus stop in front of lucky plaza, orchard)
url: http://simpledifference.net/111/09048

RESULT:
9 minutes
26 minutes
111
09048
ORCHARD RD – LUCKY PLAZA
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RESULT DESCRIPTION:
9 minutes, estimated arrival time for bus no 111
26 minutes, estimated arrival time for next bus no 111 (after the first bus)
111, bus no 111
09048, bus stop no
ORCHARD RD – LUCKY PLAZA, bust stop description

The last but no less important, thanks to Ganius Taniel for the idea and the script.