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I got an e-mail from my buddy Chris confirming that my dream has come true. Finally I can get transit information from Google Transit. It also calculates how much the equivalent trip in a car would cost. For example: for me to get home, it would cost $2 on transit, $3.30 in a car and $16 in a cab. Or free on a bike.
Definitely like this feature!
This is great news, and the city and our client Google have received some very good media coverage of this announcement over the past few days.
Here are some links:
• Story in the Chicago Tribune
• Story in the Chicago Sun-Times
• Story in Crain’s Chicago Business
Here is a write-up from a Google blog.
By the way, what Google has done here—in making government owned content more findable and usable on the Web—is being managed by the people in Mountain View that we’re working with to do content partner marketing.
In fact, Jay and I have met the Google Transit guy! –Gary
Pretty nifty! It is rather impressive that the public transit orgs. of so many cities have partnered with Google to make this happen. A very useful tool indeed. If you ever find yourself without the internet and need to plan a trip in Chitown I frequently us their free trip planner by calling 836-7000 from any area code. It is very helpful for figuring out all the bus routes.
But hey, it is almost summer. So get off the bus and get onto your bike.
They even have the information in 11 different languages. Fun for all
Even more importantly, I discovered recently that the CTA is using Google Transit exclusively on their own site. However, you still need to use the RTA Trip Planner to get to Suburbia.