Phone App Answers Commuter Question: 'Where's My Bus?'

A brand new smartphone application available to NJ Transit riders in South Jersey to let them know bus arrival times is coming to the northern part of the state, reports NJ.com.

“MyBus Now” was unveiled in December in a pilot program for bus routes near Trenton and Princeton. used in South Jersey last December. By April, it had spread to Atlantic City and Camden. A version of the program has been in Morristown since 2010.

Now it's North Jersey's turn: This area is expected to have the free service by the end of the year.

The app uses GPS and some proprietary technology to tell users at bus stops the buses within 30 minutes of their location. 

"My Bus Now" may have been useful to rush hour passengers waiting for NJ Transit’s No. 113 Express from Dunellen to New York's Port Authority Bus Terminal and wondering, "Where's my bus?" last Thursday morning.

Turns out their bus got lost, making its riders two hours late for work, according to NJ.com.

In what's being called the "ride from Hell," passengers said the bus driver went off its usual course, Route 3, and wound up going in circles in Secaucus. What normally is a 45-minute trip took 148, the article said, adding that the bus eventually found the George Washington Bridge.

"We apologize to our customers for their experience and we plan on reaching out to them," NJ Transit spokeswoman Nancy Snyder said in a statement.

NJ Transit is investigating the incident.