[header] How to ride a public transportation bus [title] Look at a bus route map. [step] Nearly every public transportation bus has a set route that they travel on. To find out how to get to where you need to go, get a bus route map. 
These typically have different colored lines with dots along them that represent the different busses and stops. The bus route map should also have a timetable on it that displays when each bus will be where.