Transit Beta
The busy elves at Google Labs have rolled out a new test product. It's a free transit trip planner that, in addition to allowing you to search for public transit routes based on arrival time or immediate departure, also compares the cost of your transit ticket to the cost of driving to the same destination. Note: The actual computation is based strictly on the standard cost-per-mile deduction (40.5 cents) that the IRS allows businesses to claim. Still, useful information. For now, Google Transit is only available for Portland, Oregon, but the company says it plans to roll it out across the country and around the world.
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Boy, the SF Bay Area could use this. Maybe I'll move to Portland.
Google's version would be an improvement, but the Bay Area does have a decent trip planner already called 511 Transit. See: http://www.transitinfo.org/
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