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« Back From Virginia | Main | Meet The Burgers » September 30, 2006Google Transit Does SeattleBus riders, rejoice! Google Transit has just added a whole host of new cities to its route-planning system ... including Seattle: The Google Transit Trip Planner, online at http://google.com/transit, uses data from King County to map bus routes and calculate how long the trip would take. It also compares the cost with what you would spend if you made the trip by car. Google Transit complements the venerable (and awesome) BusMonster mashup, and provides the usual, clean, Google-y interface. It's slick. Mad, map props to King County, who, according to the Seattle Times, drove the relationship with Google: King County Executive Ron Sims said he directed his staff to contact Google. The county's own transit-planning site was seeing steady traffic — it planned 7.5 million trips for users last year — and Sims wanted more sources of information online. My tax dollars at work, and I couldn't be happier. Posted by Gavin Shearer at September 30, 2006 9:16 AM. Posted to Transit. CommentsPost a commentThanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out) (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.) |