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So what do you think the MTA has to win or lose by making it available? What does Google win or lose by having it?
I know what the people win, a freakin break at planning their trip! It's a freakin pain finding the address of the lite rail station and crap. If someone depended on the buses, it's got to be big help.
the MTA would actually have to have a database that can be decipherable and useful. my guess is that they signed on with a private company that somehow is holding the information hostage because it's owned and maintained under contract by said company and if google gets they wont be needed. OR the MTA's database is built by incompetents and google is having a hell of a time interpreting it. both are totally likely scenarios
MTA does have all their transit hubs in some form of a database as evidenced by the fact that http://socaltransport.org/ exists. It also has info for OCTA and some others.
the mta has already gotten their bus data organized and ready to be imported into google but apparently it's some sort of holdup with their train data that's holding things up, apparently thats difficult.
itll be great not to have to use metro's sucky site