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by o10449366 1063 days ago
This is a great idea. I can only speak to NYC, but the data sources don't give good recommendations. Optimal routing for time in NYC is tricky though and relying on only mapping services and not a combination of walking, biking, buses, and subways leads to longer travel times than necessary.

For example, there are many parts of Brooklyn where no transit lines are directly connected and you have to go into Manhattan first, meaning if you took the train it would take 1+ hours, versus bus (30 minutes) or biking (15 minutes).
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jwestbury 1063 days ago
Have you used CityMapper? I haven't used it in NYC, but I use in in London, and it's solved this problem much better than Google/Apple Maps.

Edit: Though, CityMapper doesn't actually provide a travel time map, alas.

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ng-henry 1063 days ago
Experienced this problem too in Toronto, when Google Maps wouldn't give transit + bike directions (which are often much faster than transit + walk). As you know the city more though these things become intuitive and Google Maps becomes less useful.

I started using Transit App more often for the mixed-modes routing. It even supports bike shares/scooters, so sometimes it suggests new routes based on scooter -> subway -> scooter which is much faster than bus -> subway -> bus.

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