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Another thought about relatively small things that improve quality of life. I used to find navigating a strange city by bus impossible to extremely stressful. This applied almost as much to unfamiliar parts of the city I lived in. This problem has now been solved in Toronto. The TTC website includes a "trip planner" that allows one to input starting and finishing location and which then calculates the optimal route. Bus routes now have names for all the stops and audio/visual messaging on the buses (and streetcars) announcing the next stop. Travel by bus is now not essentially different from rail/subway.

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kore

The online bus trip planner here is amazing. I just plug in my destination and boom - three or four different routes.

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frandroid

The TTC has finally fed its route/schedule information to Google, so you can plan your route on Google Maps as well. I'm in London for the weekend and they haven't done that here, it's frustrating. You don't need to *develop* anything peeps, just feed the information to Google! Hallelujah! Humpf. I'm actually thinking of starting this as a small business strategy for mid-size towns.