Big news today: transit routing is now available side-by-side with driving directions on Google Maps! Here’s how it works: whenever you do a driving directions search on Google Maps in an area where Google has transit routing information, a “Take Public Transit” link appears at the top:

Google Maps transit link

Clicking on that link allows you to see how you could make the same trip on public transportation (when possible), using the step-by-step instructions previously available on the standalone Google Transit site. For the first time, U.S. transit information is as easy to find as driving directions! Hopefully this will help inform people who had never realized that transit was a viable option for their trip.

Right now this works in the areas covered by Google Transit, and the team is working hard to add more transit systems of all sizes. If you work for an agency and you’d like to see your routes on Google Maps, send mail to labs-transit_content@google.com.

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