The Google Transit Earth Day Challenge

If your town does not yet have Google Transit available, you might want to think about pushing your city/town to make it happen. There are a number of reasons why getting Google Transit in your town might have a strong side benefit to our

Here is the Google Transit post on this subject:

I recently attended a conference for technical staff in the public transportation industry. I told them about the great progress Google Transit has been able to make in the past year:

* integrating transit information directly into Google Maps by making stations and stops visible and clickable
* promoting transit as an alternative each time we show driving directions in an area where we have transit data
* expanding coverage from nine agencies in the U.S. to more than 30 agencies spanning three continents

But, of course, we don