Action Alert: Get the Big Blue Bus on Google Transit

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From the L.A. Subway Blog comes a plea for the Santa Monica Big Blue Bus on Google Transit.  As a Westsider who lives next to a Big Blue Bus Stop, it would certainly make my life easier, but Subway Blog writer Juan Matute takes a less personal approach:

Big Blue Bus has raised fares and changed schedules, but they’re still not on Google Transit. They’ve consistently promised to go on Google Transit but this promise has been consistently delayed. Pressure Big Blue Bus to join Google Transit by signing the petition below and getting your friends to do the same:

http://www.petitiononline.com/smgt/petition.html

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