Bus Routes
Government, private and minibus routes — searchable by number or stop, with the source of every route shown
Hundreds of bus routes run through Kolkata, yet no one publishes a complete list of where they go. West Bengal Transport Corporation publishes a table of its own city routes. Private routes — the blue-and-yellow buses and the minibuses — have no official published list at all.
This page brings together the three sources that do exist: WBTC's official table, the Kolkata Bus-O-Pedia community catalogue, and route lines drawn by OpenStreetMap volunteers. Every route carries a badge saying which source it comes from. Search by route number or by any stop.
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About this data
What this page shows
Route numbers, end points and stop order for government, private and minibus routes, and a map line wherever OpenStreetMap has one. There are no timetables, frequencies or fares here: no source publishes them for Kolkata buses, and we do not estimate them.
Where the data comes from
Government routes marked Officialare from West Bengal Transport Corporation's published city bus route table (wbtconline.in). Routes marked Communityare from the Kolkata Bus-O-Pedia Foundation's catalogue, as compiled and geocoded by the open calcutta-transport project. Map lines and many stop locations come from OpenStreetMap.
Limitations worth knowing
Community and OpenStreetMap routes are maintained by volunteers and may be out of date — routes in Kolkata are added, cut and renumbered without public notice. About half of all stops have no known coordinates, so they appear in the stop list but not on the map. Stop locations are approximate. Return journeys often use different one-way streets, so only one direction is drawn. Lines shown dashed have gaps in the OpenStreetMap data, and some lines are flagged where the drawn route and the listed stops disagree.
Licence
The combined route database is published under the Open Database Licence (ODbL 1.0) because it contains OpenStreetMap data. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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