@acdingman @bikemonterey @ascentale @younata @bikenite

FWIW, groups that I talk to regularly that are passionate about making things like this happen are:

Cal-ITP (Part of California DOT)
Rebel Group
Compiler
TRANSIT App (from Canada)
JAWNT
Ministry of Velocity

All of them are a mix of Public/Private/Non-Profits but every one is very passionate about "the cause" Folks might be surprised at how much "pro bono" work they do.

None of them probably get the recognition that they deserve.

@bikemonterey @ascentale @younata @bikenite @acdingman

At the Public Transportation level, cooperation between agencies is generally good, but more federated than integrated in nature. Even agency-to-agency, the differences in routing/tracking data and the ability to create planning information for the Public varies pretty wildly, and no one has the funds to build the bridges needed to make it all talk to each other.

Andrew (who I brought into this thread) might have some app suggestions...

@bikemonterey @ascentale @younata @bikenite @acdingman

Cal-ITP and other agencies, as well as some NGO service providers have been pushing for a standard, but politically the demand has not been high and most of them focus on who is making the most "noise".

Transit (which makes the MST App) for example are avid bikers and have been looking for ways to solve this for some time.

Much of my last 4 years have been pushing for open data standards in Public Transit, But MST is a fairly small voice

@bikemonterey @ascentale @younata @bikenite @acdingman

Not... Really...

TL;DR...

Tracking this information is annoyingly fragmented. No municipality that I know of for example digitally stores bikeway, greenway, or walkway information in the same way.

Google created (then largely ignored) the GTFS database, which provides a common repository for Public Transit info. But it is lacking in Multimodal fields.

GTFS2 is better, but still incomplete.

The Trump administration wants to stop large cities that receive federal funds from providing free bus transit, a move that would hit programs across the country — and could be a setback to New York City, in particular:

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/03/dot-free-buses-mamdani-nyc-transportation-00762546