Review: Ditching car OK with Net transit planners

December 30th, 2008 By ANICK JESDANUN , AP Business Writer Review: Ditching car OK with Net transit planners (AP)

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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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    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.

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