Live Times Transit MCP Server
io.github.travelwhiz-ltd/live-times-transit
answering
Live Times Transit is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 5 tools.
Read-only public transit departures, stop search, and city coverage for bus and train users.
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.
Uptime history
39 hours of history
39 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
182 of 182 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
215 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http
Connect this server
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add live-times-transit --transport http https://livebustimes.org/api/mcp~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"live-times-transit": {
"url": "https://livebustimes.org/api/mcp"
}
}
}~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.live-times-transit]
url = "https://livebustimes.org/api/mcp".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"live-times-transit": {
"url": "https://livebustimes.org/api/mcp"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"live-times-transit": {
"url": "https://livebustimes.org/api/mcp"
}
}
}Available tools 5
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
city
get_city_summary
Return Live Bus Times and Live Train Times coverage metadata and canonical links for a supported city.
departures
get_departures
Return a Live Times departure board for a known canonical stop ID. Optionally filter by route pattern or by up to 5 destinations.
places
search_places
Return up to 5 Apple Maps place candidates with Momego place IDs. Use this proactively when an origin or destination name is ambiguous, then pass the selected place ID to plan_journey.
plan
plan_journey
Return compact step-by-step public transit directions between named places. Resolves names with Apple Maps and returns clarification candidates rather than guessing when a place is ambiguous.
stops
find_stops
Resolve a named place with Apple Maps when needed, then find nearby stops or stations so callers can pass a stop_id to get_departures. For ambiguous names, include near or country_code. If the user asks for a train, select a RAIL result.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://livebustimes.org/api/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 310 ms | 8 min ago |
| https://livetraintimes.org/api/mcp | streamable-http | answering | 263 ms | 8 min ago |
Live Times Transit — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Live Times Transit do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_stops, get_city_summary, get_departures, plan_journey, search_places. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Live Times Transit working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 182 of 182 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 215 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is Live Times Transit still maintained?
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.
How do I connect Live Times Transit?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Live Times Transit need an API key?
No. Live Times Transit completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Live Times Transit?
It answers our handshake in 215 ms on average, which is faster than 59% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.