Review: Ditching car OK with Net transit planners
December 30, 2008 By ANICK JESDANUN , AP Business Writer
In this screen shot taken from Google's transit planner, a map and directions via public transit from Seattle's Space Needle to a local residence are shown. (AP Photo/Google, Inc.)
(AP) -- As a New Yorker, I don't own a car, and I really hate driving. So I challenged myself to avoid the driver's seat as much as possible during a recent West Coast trip, something made practical with all the online transit planners that have cropped up in recent years.
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x646d63 - Dec 31, 2008
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This is exactly the application for which XML is useful. Governments should provide their scheduling information in XML so that trip planners can consume it for their tools. Governments have no need to build trip planners--just drive the damn bus.- report abuse
