'Take Public Transport' feature on Google maps

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Freaking awesome. Tells you exactly the route you will need, the departure times, how much it will cost and how much you will save versus driving. I <3 google.
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by random change my boring suburban house has great public transit options. From the pavillion park and ride I already take the 982/983 to work, and one of the few other busses there goes right past the elementary school where my wife teaches. Its nice to know if gas was $12 a gallon we have options.
 
That is freakin' sweet. I've tried to go on DART numerous times to see if I could ride the bus to work and it's always such a pain in the butt that I just give up. I just typed the two addresses into google and in a fraction of a second I have every last detail about my public transit commute. Google kicks major ***.
 
Transit from my house to my office costs $2.00, a savings of $2.70.

It also takes an hour and fifteen minutes longer, assuming all the buses are on time.
 
Pretty cool. It screws up trips to UT though. Travel time from my house is listed at 25m. Usually takes less than 10m on the shuttles, wait time included.
 
I can drive to work in 25 mins, or take the public bus for 1 hr. And the people on that bus smell real bad. The car works for me.
 
Excluding walking time, it would take me 15 minutes to get to work by taking a single bus. Yeah, I'm glad I moved.
 
They don't really measure the full cost of public transportation in there (although they do their best to inflate the personal transportation cost), so the cost comparison is a bit off.
 
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my public transport trip takes 22 mins and costs $1.00.

driving takes me 5 mins and costs $1.33.

guess driving is a no brainer for me.
 
I hope they use better information than the hotlines or infolines that transportation companies use for the public. Take Austin's Cap Metro, for example. Use their website or their phone hotline and you may be hosed.

I know of some trips that given the info they provide it takes over an hour to almost two hours to get there. Combine it with a UT Shuttle, one block of a walk away and it cuts it to about half an hour or so.

What they do is give people the very easiest, less work involved route or method. That makes sense though since people tend to be lazy. But sometimes it is pathetic. A connection two or three blocks away can save over an hour.

An example from just last week. I had a passenger whose car was broken into and was not working need to get to work up on Burnet Rd, from Riverside. They suggested he take the 27/7 to campus and then all the way to somewhere up north to transfer to the 3 bus. Then a twenty minute wait for that to take him to work. Easy enough. Easy on, easy off.

But I caught him at the stop and told him to get on my bus. I got him to campus in 12 minutes. Then he took the FA, that was sitting and waiting, to Dobie Mall. He walked two blocks to Rio Grande and 21st and caught....wait for it....the 3 bus. He waited five minutes.

What was going to take him almost two hours to get to work ended up being about 40 (from what he told me the next day).

So if Google fixes this problem then it is brilliant, as usual.
 
Yea right - like I would take public transport. Imagine having to take the 7 Train to the ballpark, looking like you're riding through Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing.
 
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