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  • Omaha’s bus system, Metro, is now on Google Transit

    Metro, Omaha’s bus system, is now live on Google Transit, a Google product that identifies transit times and routes needed to get from point A to point B. This gives riders an alternative to Metro’s current Trip Planner, which provides similar functionality but in a less user-friendly and accessible way. With Google Transit live for…

  • Update 2: Google Transit still en route to Omaha

    Following our post in July reporting that Google Transit wasn’t in the plans for Omaha’s public transit system, Metro, we published an update correcting our story and breaking the news that the service would go live in September. Now, as we near the end of October, Google Transit has yet to be implemented …

  • Are we there yet? A look at Google Transit in the Silicon Prairie (Updated)

    Drop me off in Seattle, Boulder, Minneapolis, Austin — any city with widely-used public transportation, really — and there’s high potential for this traveler to be confused. Luckily, these cities and more than 443 others have welcomed the trip planning tool, Google Transit …