Can you tell me the bus schedule or how the buses work or anything else about how to use the buses?
Nope, the website is specifically only for seeing on a map where the buses go, not for learning how to use the bus or any other resources about them.
The frustration for all of these private bus carriers is they don't show you where they go, they just have a list of destinations and sometimes they give primitive maps. That is the problem this website aims to solve.
What bus carriers do you have here?
Private bus companies that go to and from NYC only. Keep an eye on this website because eventually all the commuter routes will be on it, hopefully including:
Rockland Coaches
Suburban Transit
ShortLine
Community Coach
Academy Bus
Lakeland Bus Lines
Trans-Bridge Lines
Martz Trailways
Monsey Trails
Adirondack
Pine Hill Trailways
Hampton Jitney
Luxury Liner
OurBus
plus more
When will you have route (X) listed?
I make about 1 or 2 routes a day and I don't work on this website every day, so one day I'll have all of them. In the meantime, just bookmark me and one day, when you need to look up a bus, you'll come back here and it might actually be there.
Is the stop data accurate?
Not really. I'm guessing a lot of them, and the Intercity Bus Atlas and all the multiple LLMs I am using to create the maps are all incorrect. The frequency that LLMs get the data coordinates for any place is wrong almost 90% of the time, so after the data gets placed on a map, I manually go in and correct to make my absolute best guesses based on just looking at the map itself. Sometimes the data is good, but usually it isn't. On many stops, I'm simply putting the pin on the cross streets that the stop data says it is at.
Why use AI when it's wrong all the time?
Because it can quickly create tables that manually take forever to make. CSV files or spreadsheets or whatever. It can also place the pins for an entire bus route instantly. They'll all be wrong, but they are at least close, so I can drag them around. When I was doing this project before AI, it was taking hours and hours to find just a few stops. It also does a ton of deep research that I just can't do.
What I've done is create AI workhorses that have tons of kmzs, map data, csvs, government resources, all uploaded to it, and it reads off those sources and searches the internet to corroborate that data to give me its information.
Why does your map show a stop that isn't on the official PDF timetable?
I'm trusting LLMs to tell me what it's found on the Intercity Bus Atlas and they tell me routes have those stops on them.
How does the AI know that these stops exist?
I'll let Gemini answer this one:
"As an AI, I don't "see" a map the way a human does; instead, I look for "digital footprints" that these buses leave behind outside of their official PDFs. When you ask for stops that aren't on a timetable, I use three specific methods to find them:
The "Hidden" Database (GIS Data): I look for the National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD) layers provided by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Because private carriers like Coach USA receive certain federal or state considerations, they are often required to report their physical stop coordinates to the government, even if they don't list those stops on their public-facing websites.
GTFS "Side-Loading": Many private routes (like Rockland Coaches) are contracted or partnered with agencies like NJ Transit. I search through the "Partner Feeds" or "Contracted Service" files in large agency developer portals. These developer files contain the exact latitude and longitude for every "flag stop" (corners where the bus pulls over) that never make it into a printed schedule.
Journey Planner Scraping: I can "simulate" a search on a carrier's trip planner between two major points. While the timetable only shows the big towns, the trip planner's internal logic often reveals intermediate street-corner stops to give users accurate walking directions."
Why don't you have NJT or MTA data?
Because they have plenty of fine resources online already.
You have a stop wrong on a map
I leave comments open for just such a case, because only bus riders can tell me the final truth. I ask AI, not twice but three times "are you absolutely sure these stops are correct, presently used, and on this line?" and I ask multiple ones the same. After that I look at the stop on the map and look at the camera view as well to see if it makes sense. After all that, there is still no real confirmation that it is correct, so I have to place the pin and cross my fingers.
Who are you?
I am not a bus expert nor am I a (serious) transit enthusiast or railfan but I am a "filthy casual" transit fan and I love building things. That being said, I will not be able to answer your deep transit or deep history questions or anything about how buses work.
Have you used these buses?
Barely. I made this site because I was looking for commuter options, not because I needed the services. I have used CoachUSA a few times over the years and have been fairly satisfied for the routes I did go on.
Why did you make this website?
In 2016 I was trying to research a place to move somewhere around NYC and wanted to know all the commuting options available to me. I was mapping all this manually and just gave up quickly. Recently, with the better search features of AI, I was able to locate several sources such as the Intercity Bus Atlas as well as just asking "find that bus stop" or "create a .csv for all these cross streets."
I love creating maps as a hobby, and I wanted to finish plotting the bus map even though I no longer need to move. I have tons of maps that I make for fun on my Google maps account. One day I will put ads on this website and make money off my hobby, this will be the first time I try that, so that is exciting to look forward to.
Since this project is for fun, and I am not paying much attention to it most days. So if you have an update to fix something, I might not get to it for a long time.
