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Google partners with Tri-Met for Transit

City Hall to the Airport via Google and TriMet

"Credit to Darren Eden of the Personal Telco Project for calling our attention to a special partnership between Tri-Met and Google. Now you can Google for how to take Trimet to anywhere in town and get a map of all the connections integrated with the departure times. Too cool.

"We chose to launch with the Portland metro area for a couple of reasons. Tri-Met, Portland's transit authority, is a technological leader in public transportation. The team at Tri-Met is a group of tremendously passionate people dedicated to serving their community. And Tri-Met has a wealth of data readily available that they were eager to share with us for this project. This combination of great people and great data made Tri-Met the ideal partner." --Google

I just gotta say congrats Tri-Met and Portland 'cause http://google.com/transit is pretty darn neat."

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Google likes Oregon and Vice Versa (Score:2)

by David Pool (5) on Thursday December 08, @08:04AM (#596) ( http://n4n.org/ | Last Journal: Tuesday November 29, @11:34AM )

Google seems to like Oregon. First they decide to build an enormous supercomputing center in The Dalles because of all the cheap hydro-electric power and dark fiber. [utterlyboring.com] Next thing you know, Google's Chris DiBona is in town shelling out cash to PSU and OSU [news4neighbors.net] in order to support Open Source in Oregon's University System. Now they're partnering up with Tri-Met for a super cool mapping service. Got to love it!!!

Beat me to it. (Score:2)

by ValkRaider (247) on Thursday December 08, @08:43AM (#597)

Beat me to publishing this story by one hour.. :) This is darn cool.
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love it, but... (Score:2, Insightful)

by karichisholm (723) on Thursday December 08, @10:21AM (#598)

I love this - but why does Google have me taking a bus from City Hall to NE 9th & Multnomah and then transferring to the Red Line MAX there? While that might minimize walking time, any reasonable person would walk from City Hall to Pioneer Square and catch a Red Line MAX from there. One less transfer, and one less chance to miss your flight.

Re:love it, but... (Score:2)

by David Pool (5) on Thursday December 08, @11:19AM (#599) ( http://n4n.org/ | Last Journal: Tuesday November 29, @11:34AM )

That's a good point, but well, let's see... maybe you're in a cast and can't walk. Or maybe you want to leave right away and there's a bus leaving in 2 minutes. Maybe Google should add a "reasonable person" filter that suggests an alternate route (like bicycling over to a Max stop). Lots of modes available, but this is a promising start.

For more about the Google announcement check here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/public-tran sit-via-google.html [blogspot.com]

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Re:love it, but... (Score:2, Informative)

by loaf (538) on Friday December 09, @05:08PM (#600)

This is actually easy to do using Tri-Met's own Trip Planner [trimet.org], where you can not only choose between: "Quickest Trip", "Fewest Transfers", and "Shortest Walk", but you also have four choices between a quarter mile and one mile for the "I want to walk no more than:" setting. This latter feature proved very useful for planning routes for my limited-mobility folks when they visited this year.

As for bicycling to the MAX, integrating "multiple transportation modes, especially public transit" is one of the stated goals of the very cool new Bicycle Route Finder for Portland [bycycle.org], which is also in development.