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  1. Re:is google trying to take over the world... by krunk4ever · · Score: 1 · on Google Transit Now In Beta

    maybe most, but many of the systems I've used before have been great and google's definitely not the 1st one to think of such a system.

    http://www.transitinfo.org/ does a really good job of the bay area starting from San Francisco all the way down to San Jose. They even cover the east side such as Oakland and Berkeley.

    http://www.soundtransit.org/ is another great one where they cover most of the greater seattle area.

    I would not say this idea is anywhere new or as hyped as everyone is claiming it to be... It's just a nice service they're providing to area(s) that don't have such a system yet.

  2. Re:When is someone going to integrate mass transit by phliar · · Score: 2, Informative · on Google Launches Mapping Service
    I live in NYC, and whenever I am going somewhere, I usually pull out mapquest to find the address (cross streets) and then sit there with a subway/bus map to try and figure out how to get there.
    I live in San Francisco, and the TransitInfo Trip Planner plans trips, including connections between different transit systems. Here's an example trip. TransitInfo was started by a couple of UC Berkeley students, who ran it on another student's server. Today it's funded by an agency called MTC, a consortium of local (county) governments.

    Perhaps people should lobby their local governments to collaborate with MTC. All it takes is a little leg work to coordinate your transit agencies -- they probably publish schedules and maps on the web already, and at the most it'll be some format changes and/or conversions. I'm sure MTC will share their webapp.

  3. Re:When is someone going to integrate mass transit by phliar · · Score: 2, Informative · on Google Launches Mapping Service
    I live in NYC, and whenever I am going somewhere, I usually pull out mapquest to find the address (cross streets) and then sit there with a subway/bus map to try and figure out how to get there.
    I live in San Francisco, and the TransitInfo Trip Planner plans trips, including connections between different transit systems. Here's an example trip. TransitInfo was started by a couple of UC Berkeley students, who ran it on another student's server. Today it's funded by an agency called MTC, a consortium of local (county) governments.

    Perhaps people should lobby their local governments to collaborate with MTC. All it takes is a little leg work to coordinate your transit agencies -- they probably publish schedules and maps on the web already, and at the most it'll be some format changes and/or conversions. I'm sure MTC will share their webapp.

  4. San Francisco area transit by phliar · · Score: 1 · on Google Launches Mapping Service
    I'm planing a trip to SFO, and having a nice on-the-fly map drawn of different bus/train routes would be handy
    For the San Francisco area, try TransitInfo.org. A truly impressive synthesis of some twenty local transit systems.
  5. Re:Washington, DC already does this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Yahoo! Maps to Support Realtime Traffic

    ...and for the SF Bay area there's 511 TakeTransit

  6. I just want one by toothfish · · Score: 1 · on Camera Watch: Links to Public Webcams

    down the street from me to see if the bus is coming. I wonder if MUNI is up on this-- the pilot program for tracking buses seems to have fizzled out...

  7. a couplet of ideas by Pauly · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Alternative-Fuel Vehicle Recommendations?

    First, the Corbin Sparrow really seems to taking hold in places like Los Angeles and to a lessor degree Atlanta.

    However, the lowest emissions vehicle around is a bicycle. I mean this in all seriousness. The Bay area has a uniquely nice bicycling climate, and since you already have one car, you don't have to give up the occasional hauling-of-big-stuff cars are good at. And don't underestimate the health benefits of such daily exercise. I love it since you don't have to take extra time out of your day just to go to the gym.

    In the Bay Area, there's even a service to shuttle bicycles over the Bay bridge for $1.

  8. San Francisco to Los Angeles by scotto · · Score: 1 · on Riding the World's Fastest Train @ 500 kph
    Despite Tokyo and Osaka being geographically close, it still takes you at least 3 hours to get to one city from the other. Odd, eh? It took me a while to understand this, considering I can leave San Francisco, take the BART to Oakland Airport in 14 minutes, hop on a Southwest shuttle, and arrive at Los Angeles International in under a hour.
    Actually, according to this schedule, it would take at least 18 minutes on BART from downtown San Francisco to Oakland airport, and another 15-40 minutes for the shuttle from BART to the Airport. According to Southwest Airlines, flights from OAK to LAX take at least an hour and fifteen minutes. When you take in to account the time it takes to check-in, go through sececurity and board the aircraft (at least 30 minutes), that brings to total time to over two hours.
  9. San Francisco to Los Angeles by scotto · · Score: 1 · on Riding the World's Fastest Train @ 500 kph
    Despite Tokyo and Osaka being geographically close, it still takes you at least 3 hours to get to one city from the other. Odd, eh? It took me a while to understand this, considering I can leave San Francisco, take the BART to Oakland Airport in 14 minutes, hop on a Southwest shuttle, and arrive at Los Angeles International in under a hour.
    Actually, according to this schedule, it would take at least 18 minutes on BART from downtown San Francisco to Oakland airport, and another 15-40 minutes for the shuttle from BART to the Airport. According to Southwest Airlines, flights from OAK to LAX take at least an hour and fifteen minutes. When you take in to account the time it takes to check-in, go through sececurity and board the aircraft (at least 30 minutes), that brings to total time to over two hours.
  10. Good public sector site: transitinfo.org by sulli · · Score: 2 · on How Should Government Web Sites Be Designed?
    In the Bay Area, Transit Info has schedules, maps, and info on a huge variety of transit providers, most or all of which are public-sector agencies or nonprofit corporations. Since the Bay Area's transit infrastructure is highly Balkanized (something like 30 agencies!) this is the best way to get information on how to get around - and it's very simple, user-friendly, and not cluttered with the kind of noise you usually get from overzealous web designers.

    This should be an example to anyone designing a web site distributing customer information, in my opinion.

  11. Re:Living in the 'Valley... by K-Man · · Score: 1 · on In Silicon Valley $37K/Year May Mean Public Housing

    I was using the term loosely.

    In the Bay Area, the transit systems are operated by separate agencies, which may or may not share tickets as you describe. It's a mess.
    The major systems are:
    BART: serving everywhere except Silicon Valley and San Mateo county (heavy rail).
    SF Muni: San Francisco transit agency. Some bus lines in SF have higher ridership than BART lines costing 100x more.
    Caltrain: SF-San Jose train line with a terminal 1 mile south of downtown or the nearest BART station in SF.
    Santa Clara Valley Transit: a bus system with some light rail. The major agency serving SV.
    There's a web site describing this at transitinfo.org