Metro has started posting signs at thousands of bus stops around the region touting its Next Bus system.

But the program slated to give bus riders a better sense of when the transit agency’s buses will arrive won’t be ready for another month. Callers who try the telephone number on the signs get a cheerful message telling them that Next Bus was suspended in October 2007.

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