I know Metrolinx is planning a common portal for transit information (maps, schedules, trip planner, etc), and it looks like this will eventually become that portal.
No, it's not that useful for anyone who would actually visit this forum, but we're not exactly average people in our level of knowledge.If it evolves to a situation where you can type in a starting address somewhere in the GTA and a desitination address somewhere else and it can provide you one or two trip routings telling you what transit systems to use, how to pay and where to transfer then it might have some utility (something like Brampton Transit's {there may be others but that is the one I am familiar with} "E-Ride" trip planner but encompassing the whole GTA.....
Here's the best example of what one website for multiple transit agencies I could find:
http://511.org/
Here's the best example of what one website for multiple transit agencies I could find:
http://511.org/
What makes this so frustrating is that this sort of system is available, the software is clearly out there, we are a multi-system region and we re-launch a site like findtheway.ca with nothing more than links to transit systems....of all the things that could have been achieved quickly and relatively cheaply this sort of transit-web-scheduling integration would have made sense and exhibited a real commitment to integration.(IMHO)
I see this as Metrolinx's biggest failure. A standard-setting agency that promulgates a common format for transit data, enabling the development of tools built on top of that common format, is badly needed. Metrolinx could have been that agency. It still can.