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Your bus' route isn't on their website?
Where I live, we have a map of the entire public transit.
Even if it is on the website, it's still nice to have it in OSM so it's available to mapping apps that use OSM data. It's very possible that OP intends to copy the information from the transit / city website into the OSM database.
We don't have a website for that in my country (at least, not officialy supported). Bus routes are usually learned by memory/asked to strangers or relatives. That's why I want to add it to osm.
That's a very good idea. My home town is using a janky list of nodes in a Google My Maps and it's so frustrating to use. I added the routes to OSM and they updated their website to reference my work.
Where I live, there is a random collection of buses, all privately operated, with no route maps, no website, and no head office.