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Google has extended its Google Transit experiment to include five other cities besides the initial city of Portland, OR.

Now you can now also plan your public transportation treks in:

• Eugene, Oregon
• Honolulu, Hawaii
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Seattle, Washington
• Tampa, Florida

I was quite pleased to see that Tampa, my town, was added. A shame that I pretty much swore never to use public transportation again after the horrible experiences I used to have in Miami, FL. On those rare occasions that I do need to take the bus somewhere, though, it’s nice to have a handy helper like this.

And to make it easier for other cities to add their own transit data to Google Transit, they have developed and released the Google Transit Feed Specification.