Photo by Fredo Alvarez One day into to the official relaunch of WMATA’s Next Bus service, and we’ve heard a lot positive feedback from bus riders about the usefulness of the system. But some problems with the real-time Metrobus arrival tool are already apparent. The Washington Post ran a brief story today detailing the difficulties some users are having with the voice recognition software in the phone-based arm of Next Bus, for example, something…

Metro is relaunching Next Bus on Wednesday, July 1. The service originally debuted about two years ago, but WMATA wasn’t happy with its accuracy, which it said was only about 80 percent, so they shut down the pilot program in October 2007. After spending almost two years making upgrades, Next Bus is back, and we want to hear from bus riders as they try out the improved real-time Metrobus locating system. There are three…

Fairly exciting news from WMATA: the transit agency let the world know this morning that they are planning to relaunch the much-clamored-for Next Bus service on July 1. In preparation, your bus stop du jour will be getting new signage anyday now. The Next Bus system, which uses GPS technology to accurately estimate the real-time arrivals of buses, should really assist those of us — all of us, I should say — who know…