Fix Hudson Link
A rider-led campaign site for my county's bus line. Riders log a late or missing bus in under 30 seconds, email the operator and the state in one tap, and see a measured reliability baseline built from their reports.
The story
My county bus line kept not showing up. When a new operator took over in April 2026, riders lost real-time bus information entirely, so nobody could prove how bad it was.
So I built a place for riders to log every ghost bus and send it straight to the people in charge, and filed a public records request for the official numbers. Riders have logged 95 ghost buses so far.
- Launched
- April 2026
A few tips
- Give people one tap to email the people in charge, filled in from their own report.
- Ask for the official numbers with a public records request. It costs nothing but patience.
- My first bus tracker was built on a data feed that never existed. Check that your data source is real before you build on it.
Tools I used for this project
Claude Code: Built the site and the ghost bus report form.
Netlify: Hosts the site.a scrapera FOIL request
