GoThere.sg gets you there

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A few days ago Tym left a com­ment clue­ing me in on GoThere.sg, and like her and her friend Lucian, I think I have found the replace­ment for streetdirectory.com and every other online bus/train route plan­ner our fine trans­port com­pa­nies are strug­gling to put up.

GoThere.sg sim­ply rocks! I’ve been using it for a few days to plan my (dri­ving) routes, and the bus and train infor­ma­tion it comes up with in a jiffy makes me want to take buses and trains for when I don’t really need to use the car.

Plus, after I blogged about Angus Steak House, I tacked the restaurant’s infor­ma­tion on their map, and a cou­ple of hours later, Jeremy Soh from GoThere.sg emailed to thank me for con­tribut­ing to what they must have planned to be a trea­sure trove of user-contributed information.

As for what the site can do to improve, I threw a span­ner in the works and tried to plan a route from Orchard Road to KLCC in KL. It returned a ten­ta­tive “Drive” instruc­tion, with the option of “Try avoid­ing ERP”, while the spin­ning thing on the page has been spin­ning for the last 15 min­utes, and I hope I haven’t bro­ken anything.