41,000 Indians use bus schedule beta text system

Very cool indeed!

Link: Now bus schedules on SMS in Gujarat-Ahmedabad-Cities-The Times of India

The Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation’s cellphone timetable service seems to have got hits even from abroad, considering the huge NRG settlers who use this service when home.

As a pilot test, the project was taken up in a part of the state where nearly 41,000 people used the service. Three of these requests for bus services, came from phone numbers in the UK and 306 from other states in India.

I’d use this if I could find something similar in the UK. Instead I have to regularly sit and stare into space waiting for a 205 to arrive…