Bee Network

Transport for Greater Manchester

About this app

Say yellow to the Bee Network app, brought to you by Transport for Greater Manchester. You can find your nearest stop, get live departure times, track your bus, plan a journey and buy and use tram tickets.

Use the Bee Network app to:
• Track bus live locations
• Find your nearest stops and departure times, save your favourites for quick access
• Plan your journey on public transport or by active travel
• Buy and display tram, bus and multi modal tickets
• View active, purchased and expired tickets
• Rate your journey


BUS TRACKING
View the live locations of buses on a map and track them along the route to your stop. You can also see the locations of subsequent buses and where they are currently are on the route.


LIVE TRAVEL UPDATES
Get live departure times for bus, tram and train. Find your nearest stop, select it as a ‘favourite’ and stay updated.


JOURNEY PLANNING
You can plan public transport journeys on buses, trams and trains as well as active travel via cycling, cycle hire and walking. Filter results by travel mode or step-free access. Park and ride options are provided when available.

We will let you know the right ticket for your journey and either give you the option to buy it in the app or provide you with pricing information and instructions for other retail channels.


BUY, SAVE AND DISPLAY TICKETS FROM THE APP
You can buy selected bus and tram tickets on the Bee Network app, including our new Bee AnyBus+Tram tickets and use the app to display or scan your ticket when boarding or for inspection.

You can now pay easily with Apple Pay and Google Pay as well as the option to save your payment details, to make it quicker and easier when you’re buying your tickets.


RATE YOUR JOURNEY
Let us know about your bus and tram journeys in Greater Manchester. We will use your feedback to shape the Bee Network.


For further information go to beenetwork.com

Please note that you must have a valid ticket to travel on public transport otherwise you are liable for a Penalty Fare.

If you are using the app to buy and display tickets for travel, make sure your phone has enough battery to display your ticket for the duration of your journey.

Bee Network: Powered by Transport for Greater Manchester.
Every journey. Every day.

Ratings and reviews

Would be a good app if it actually worked. Buses never have a live tracking anymore, its always "unavailable." Also what's the point in having scheduled buses for certain times, when 75% of the time the bus doesn't actually show up and you have to wait ATLEAST another 30 mins for the next bus and actually, 3 show up from the last 2 times they missed

Considering this replaced the stagecoach app for me, I was expecting a reasonably similar experience. Unfortunately it's just a big downgrade, you can't easily see buses around you, you don't get estimated times of arrival, the view is buggy and the ui is unintuitive. I hope they continue to improve this app, because at the moment it's mediocre.

Tracking is even worse than it was with plain First, ghost buses keep showing up on tracking. Not nearly as much ticket variety as other apps. No single-ticket bundle, or contract options. Nowhere near the ease-of-use of the first app: you've got make 4 taps to go from bus tracking to showing your ticket. The tickets need a internet connection to use even though the buses don't have wifi anymore! If you're in a remote location you're done for!

What’s new

We’ve made a variety of functionality, performance, and stability improvements.