11 messages in com.googlegroups.googletransitRe: Add Los Angeles!
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Jasleen07 Feb 2008 10:34 
kovi...@gmail.com11 Feb 2008 13:53 
mzirino14 Feb 2008 10:47 
Spirited Away10 Mar 2008 16:16 
mzirino11 Mar 2008 10:03 
Accidental Guru11 Mar 2008 14:38 
mzirino12 Mar 2008 13:06 
Pierre-Léo Bourbonnais12 Mar 2008 13:29 
Accidental Guru12 Mar 2008 16:45 
mzirino13 Mar 2008 10:42 
Cary Shapiro13 Mar 2008 10:54 
Subject:Re: Add Los Angeles!
From:mzirino (mzir@gmail.com)
Date:03/11/2008 10:03:56 AM
List:com.googlegroups.googletransit

It seems the interests of the riders need to rule, whatever the case may be, and eventually they will. Perhaps Google needs to give the agencies free advertising space on GT so that they can drive traffic to their websites whenever one of their routes is used.

But www.mta.net is in my opinion a very weak site for a huge city like LA. No way can MTA compete with Google in aggregating and presenting this kind of data.

Marco

On Mar 11, 9:07 am, Aaron Antrim <aa.@arcatacommunity.org> wrote:

Hi,

Google has to be careful about not alienating agencies -- you would think all the agencies would be happy about GT, but that's not necessarily the case.

That said, I am a transit advocate, and I strongly recommend you post your comment to the MTA here:http://getsatisfaction.com/

It's a really cools site and idea.

Aaron

On Mar 10, 4:17 pm, Spirited Away <asel@gmail.com> wrote:

yes I just did that, i e-mailed cust@metro.net and asked to join Google transit, i hope it workes

i agree that MTA just needs to give access to Google, but i donno what are legal issues?

isnt all this info like maps and routs already available online to anybody?

On Feb 14, 11:48 am, mzirino <mzir@gmail.com> wrote:> Make sure you write
customer service athttp://www.mta.netandtell

them you want MTA on google transit.  I actually emailed customer service and they told me that they were working out legal issues with Google.  Does anyone know the nature of those legal issues?    My honest opinion is that MTA needs to give it's data to Google without restrictions.  Then it can be combined with other data, such as stores near drop-off points to make searches really useful.  It may really help people adopt public transit more widely.- Hide quoted text -