[Rathji]

I think the best part about the new trip planner is there is a link to Google Maps on the front page, right below the link to trip planner.

Just did some different searches on how to get to work from home (McKenzie Towne to Downtown):

1. Typed in addresses. Couldn't figure anything out, and One Moment Please spun for a few mins before I gave up. Tried a couple different variations, no improvement.

2. Right clicked and set origin and destination. Worked well, except it was really annoying that the browser context menu opened up and blocked the app context menu. It also only gave me one route suggestion, to use the 117 (and to use the 117 and then transfer to another bus downtown), and totally ignored the option I wanted to use, which was the 302 . That suggestion actually had me leaving 3 minutes in the past (ie it was 6:34 and the time it gave me that I had to leave was 6:31).

3. I tried to find the 302 McKenzie Towne park and ride terminal to fix the issue in 2. I first tried the "Stop" menu in origin. Not only was the only option to search by stop number, but the drop down menu was slow to populate, and only populated a few a t a time, rather than having a entire list to scroll through. I then tried to use the Landmarks, thinking it might include park and ride locations as options, but it didn't. I then needed to find the park and ride location on the map and right click to specify origin.

Overall impressions/suggestions.

- I should be able to specify C train stations or park and rides from list of landmarks.
- Address parsing needs to be good enough to at least give you potential options if it can't figure it out exactly.
- Should give multiple route options for all routes that are in the community. For example, 92, 302 and 117 in McKenzie Towne.
- Should give multiple times, or an obvious way to get those additional times if the original options are not suitable (such as leaving 3 minutes in the past, or needing to leave before you are actually ready - ie need to get my coat, shoes, bag ready once I am done at computer)
- The fact that you need to wait, after each movement of the map for it to load before you can move again is really annoying. If I want to find downtown and don't zoom out the exact amount, or move the complete distance in one shot, it forces me to wait to load all the info for the place I actually stopped at (for example, Douglas Glen).