{"id":115,"date":"2008-06-30T23:06:57","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T04:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2008-06-30T23:06:57","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T04:06:57","slug":"hey-mr-bus-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/30\/hey-mr-bus-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey Mr. Bus Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dallasarearapidtransit.com\/images\/guide-bus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"193\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today I successfully navigated the Dallas public transit system thanks to Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few weeks I&#8217;ve been taking the train to work two to three days a week. Today however I got an urgent request to pick up a presentation at a location that wasn&#8217;t close to a train stop. Just as I was preparing to take the train back to my car so I could drive past work to the pickup location, I stumbled on Google Maps Mass Transit Planner. It works just like driving directions except that it provides bus and train stops instead.<\/p>\n<p>I was able to follow the directions and quickly make it to my destination and back. An hour long ordeal turned into a 20-minute experiment in mass transit. So here&#8217;s to <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\">Google Maps<\/a> and <a title=\"Why do you have to put the www. in front for this address to work?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dart.org\">DART<\/a> for making my day easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I successfully navigated the Dallas public transit system thanks to Google Maps. Over the last few weeks I&#8217;ve been taking the train to work two to three days a week. Today however I got an urgent request to pick up a presentation at a location that wasn&#8217;t close to a train stop. Just as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"url":"","client":"","location":"","start_date":"","end_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}