Google Transit Spreads To New Cities

It’s fun to “ooh” and “aah” over Google’s most interesting products and services, but it’s also frustrating to note their limited availability.  Street View, for example, doesn’t picture a road within 600 miles of my home.  But Google Transit has just added coverage in a handful of areas.

Dallas, Las Vegas, California’s Humboldt County and Thousand Oaks, and the San Francisco Bay Area have been included in the update.  They’re all quite some distance from Lexington, Kentucky (the home of Murdok), but, well, whatever.  People in those locations should be pleased, anyway.

Chris Harrelson, a Google Transit software engineer, is also happy.  “As you may know, Google Transit began its life as a 20 percent project,” he wrote on the