Citybus

Citybus

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About this app

1. Next Bus Arrival Time Enquiry function with driving status of the bus

- Display ETA of the next 3 arrivals within 60 minutes of all Citybus routes, including KMB and Long Win departures for jointly operated routes and the ETA of Kowloon Motor Bus / Long Win Bus, New Lantao Bus and Green minibuses provided by Data.gov.hk
- Exclusively display actual distance between current location of the travelling bus and the selected stop on Citybus routes. Alert user when delay is detected or when the bus cannot continue its journey.
- Able to customize ETA display method in “countdown minutes” or “arrival time”.

2. Nearby Route search, get ETA of all franchised buses and minibus routes nearby
- Display next bus ETA and nearest bus stop of all routes within 400m radius from current or selected location.
- The routes bookmarked or frequently checked will be displayed on the top of the list.
- You can manage routes bookmarked or checked in “Bookmark” and “History” page.

3. Find Nearby Bus Stop on map
- Click a bus stop on the map to show all routes calling that bus stop, next bus ETA.

4. Powerful Bookmark function with push notification on latest news
- Retrieve next bus ETA of desired routes in the “Bookmark” page after bookmarking a route and bus stop. Sequence of the bookmarks can be “Edited” to put favorite routes on top.
- With push notification enabled, you can receive route specific customer notice and special arrangement referencing the bookmarks.
- Origin and destination can also be bookmarked to speed up nearby bus stop search and point-to-point search.

5. Look for ETA by destination
- By clicking the new “Destination” button at main page, the system will suggest direct Citybus routes from user current location to the selected destination, with ETA to the nearest bus stop.
- If there is no direct route, the system will suggest a combination of Citybus routes to the destination.

6. Intelligent Point to Point Route Search
- Display the fastest, cheapest or less walking required Citybus routes at your selected time of travel
- Provide estimated journey time integrating timetable, historical bus journey times, ETA and user walking time.
- Octopus interchange and fare concessions are included when displaying fare.

7. Alight reminder
- Remind you to alight in 2 phases according to the distance to the bus stop. You can preset up to 10 alight reminders. The reminder will be deleted automatically upon arrival.

8. Instant Traffic News
- Provide special traffic news from Transport Department & Citybus

9. Fare Concession
- You can go to the Citybusfare concession page with just one click to view the various bus - bus interchange and other fare discounts we offer

Remarks:
- Automatic search for nearest routes and bus stops function uses location service of your device.
- When alight reminder is enabled, the app uses location service of your device continuously until arriving at the selected bus stop, which may drain battery.
- Next bus ETA, alight reminder and search result of point to point search are for reference only, subject to traffic conditions.

Q&A:
https://www.citybus.com.hk/en/uploadedFiles/app_guide/en.html

If you encounter any further problem when using this app, please contact us at [e-mail] for follow up.

Ratings and reviews

Filled with nunerous ads and oftentimes the system is down. When looking through your bookmarks, for some reason it would show all the buses going through a certain bus stop instead of just the line you're looking for. And lastly, it would be much better if the route notifications were displayed on native viewer instead of forcing the user to download a PDF file. Waste of space and phone's resources.

The app was barely acceptable before this new update and now it is worse! It takes 30 seconds to load the app, but it makes you watch an ad for another 5 seconds before you can use it. I use it every morning to check bus times, but it takes 8-10 taps, and over 1 minute to reach the result. Why can't you make it easier? We can't even set favourites for frequently used bus routes. And the ads are totally UNACCEPTABLE for an official app.

After opening the app in my iPhones, including iPhone 6, iPhone 6 plus and iPhone 13 Pro Max, to check next bus info, the app continues to run in the background, resulting my iPhones become hot. I have to manually stop the app. This is not normal, The app will continue to run in till my phone battery runs out. Do not know if the same problem with Android phones because I seldom use my Android phones for checking bus times.

What's new

Security update and bug fix