Every bus and metro in Bengaluru and Karnataka, one place.
Ask Bengaluru answers the question every traveller asks at the stand: when is the next bus, and where does it leave from?
Who runs Ask Bengaluru
Ask Bengaluru and its Android app, Track My Bus, are built and run by Shibili Kalkandoor and team, an independent group in Karnataka. We are not a transport corporation or a ticketing agent: the site is free, needs no sign-up, and is paid for by the advertising on it. Write to us any time at hello@askbengaluru.com.
What the site covers
73,463 scheduled departures from 257 KSRTC, KKRTC and NWKRTC bus stands, the 4,115 stand-to-town timetables built from them, every town those buses reach, BMTC city bus routes in Bengaluru, Namma Metro lines and stations, SETC buses from Tamil Nadu, and private buses that riders and operators add. Every bus page shows the stops on the way with estimated times, and a live position when a rider on that bus shares it.
Where the data comes from
- KSRTC, KKRTC and NWKRTC timetables: the bus-stand departure sheets the corporations publish (the boards at the enquiry counter). We read each sheet, merge the many spellings of the same town (Bengalore, Bangalore and Bengaluru become one place) and rebuild it as a searchable timetable. Some stands come from lists collected by local volunteers, and each such page names the person who collected it.
- Buses, stops and platforms added by riders: anyone can add a missing bus, a stop or a platform. Riders confirm what they add before sending it, our team reviews the queue every day, and anything wrong is corrected or removed.
- Live bus positions: riders who tap “I am on this bus” in the Track My Bus app share their position anonymously while on board. When nobody is sharing, positions and arrival times are estimates from the timetable at an average road speed of 40 km/h, and the page says so.
- BMTC routes: the open BMTC GTFS feed (published under the Open Database Licence), with stops, first and last buses and frequencies.
- Namma Metro: BMRCL's published first and last trains and frequencies; arrival times are estimates.
- SETC buses: Tamil Nadu's open data portal.
- Maps and town locations: OpenStreetMap contributors and GeoNames.
The bus stand timetables were last rebuilt on 2026-10-06; the site rebuilds every night, and changes our team or riders make (a cancelled bus, a new platform, a removed timing) show on the pages at once.
How we keep timings right
Timetables change: buses are added, withdrawn and retimed. We compare new sheets with the old ones at every update, mark cancelled and changed services, and act on every correction we receive, usually within a day. When a bus has no confirmed data we say so rather than guess, and estimated times are always labelled as estimates. If you see a wrong time, use “Report bus” on the bus itself or write to us through the contact page, ideally with a photo of the stand's board.
What we are not
Ask Bengaluru is independent. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated on behalf of KSRTC, KKRTC, NWKRTC, BMTC, BMRCL, SETC or the Government of Karnataka. We do not sell tickets; reservations are made on ksrtc.in or the corporations' own apps. Always confirm time-critical journeys with the bus stand.