Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Next stop, the world: Carl Partridge's mission to change how we use buses



Carl Partridge

"If I drew you a cow it would look like a jelly," admits Carl Partridge, the 34-year-old app developer from West Hampstead who is changing the way people use the UK's bus networks.


A lack of artistic skill has not held Partridge back, however. He is responsible for creating the London Bus Checker mobile app, a hugely successful £2 download that provides busy travellers a live countdown on their iPhone as to when the bus they are waiting for will arrive.


Now he's taking this idea to the whole of the United Kingdom with UK Bus Checker -- and he has global plans in his sights, too.


By: Nate Lanxon, Edited by: Duncan Geere


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/11/carl-partridge-bus-times

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