The Bee Network app is to get major upgrades this week - including a live bus tracker

A new journey planner and live bus tracker will be added to the Bee Network app this week, hoped to make it easier for people to plan and track their bus journeys. The new journey planner is now available on the Bee Network with a live bus tracking service to follow over the next week.

The journey planner will enable people to plan any trip using public transport, including on bus, tram or train, as well as walking, wheeling and cycling routes. The planner will also show park and ride locations and bike hire stations.

The bus tracker will also allow customers to see where their bus is on a map in the coming week, with live bus tracking on the Bee Network app available across Greater Manchester from March 21. Work will be ongoing to continually improve the accuracy of the service as Greater Manchester takes on more control of the network, Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has said.

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TfGM says the new additions have been designed to complement existing Bee Network app features including live departure times for local bus, tram and train stops and stations; the ability to buy tram tickets, Bee AnyBus travelcards, and Bee AnyBus + Tram travelcards; access to travel alerts and the ‘rate my journey feature’. The bus tracker will be rolled out in the next week ahead of the second phase of franchised bus services launching in Oldham, Rochdale and parts of Bury, Salford and North Manchester on Sunday, 24 March.

Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, said: “It’s an exciting time for public transport in the city-region with the next phase of bus franchising launching imminently, a move that will bring half of Greater Manchester’s bus