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Link VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - If you ride the bus or take the SkyTrain, you'll soon have a new way to plan your commute in real time, but only if you have a smartphone. Two weeks from today, you'll be able to track any bus as it's on the road. "There are a lot of times where I leave the house at the exact same time and the bus will have just left, because they do vary slightly, and if I knew where they are it would make life easier," says one man who plans to use the application daily. TransLink is spending nearly $800,000 on the app that tracks the buses using GPS technology. It will also include the existing Next Bus program that allows people to text or call in their bus stop code to find out when it will arrive next. The money being spent is well-spent, according to some commuters. "Buses are often early or very late so to get real-time tracker you won't miss it as often, like I just did," says one man. The transit authority will introduce the app on September 6th.