After years of rider complaints about “ghost buses” — buses that show up on transit tracker apps but fail to arrive in real life — the CTA has started publicly sharing data about canceled bus runs.

The data is available on the CTA’s online bus tracker at ctabustracker.com , CTA spokesperson Manny Gonzales said.

The CTA has not yet started sharing canceled bus information on its ticketing app, Ventra, which also has a bus and train tracking function. Gonzales said the agency was working with the Ventra team to make the information available there.

The third-party Transit app has begun using the agency’s data to alert riders when a scheduled bus has been canceled, the Chicago Sun-Times first reported Monday. The Transit app has been marking canceled bus runs with a strike-through, sai

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