Live Times Transit MCP Server

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answering

Live Times Transit is answering right now. Last checked 2 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 47 days of history · worst day 67%

47 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

184 of 184 checks

Tools

read from the server

362 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Live Times Transit missed 4 checks this week

Everything else answered, so this is steady rather than shaky. We check every 15 minutes, which is how a one-off gets told apart from the start of a pattern, and how you hear about the next one within the hour instead of from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 2 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

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"
    }
  }
}

This server publishes 1 more address. The block above uses the one we reach during checks; the full list is under Endpoints below, and the author may intend a particular one for your client.

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	291 ms	2 min ago
https://livetraintimes.org/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	305 ms	2 min ago

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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 184 of 184 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 362 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 362 ms on average, which is faster than 43% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.