Madison Bus Tracker

It works, but the ads are user-hostile

There are some very easy changes that would make this much easier to use. If the route pages let you see a map of the route, even just a static page, you would have some idea of how all the stops were situated. It is also baffling that the stop lists are sorted alphabetically, rather than by their eastbound/westbound order. I spent fifteen minutes trying to figure out nearby stops because I assumed it was based on route order. The numbering makes this even more confusing, because there’s no conceivable reason why I would need to know that a stop is 20th alphabetically or whatever. The numbers could instead show the stop numbers listed at the bus stops. I understand that live/interactive pages are a much bigger jump in functionality, but these small changes (link to map and sorting by route order) would make the app much more interpretable for new users.