Feed status · checked 2026-08-01
Mason City Public Transit
Based on the feed this agency publishes
Service mode Bus
unchanged since 2026-07-31
Catalogued in Iowa.
A data-quality and completeness lens to help an agency improve its GTFS feed. Not an official compliance determination from any transit program. New to this? How to read your scorecard. Interactive view of this scorecard. Rubric v1.3, validator 8.0.1.
Checked for changes 73 minutes ago; last changed 9 days ago.
Measured 3 of 4 score categories from the agency's own feed.
How we measured this
Confidence in this measurement: medium.
- Realtime quality was not measured this run. It does not count against the grade.
- The feed was downloaded from the agency's own URL.
Confidence describes how much the pipeline could measure this run, not the feed itself. It never changes the grade.
Top things to fix
Set wheelchair_boarding to 1 (accessible) or 2 (not accessible) for every stop. A field survey can start with the busiest stops.Likely your team
89 of 89 stops don't say whether a wheelchair user can board there. Riders who use wheelchairs can't plan a trip when accessibility is marked 'unknown'; apps show no information at all.
⏱ A column in stops.txt; your scheduling software likely has it.worth about +25 points in its category
Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip. If every vehicle is accessible, this may be one default; otherwise use the value for each trip.Likely your export tool
132 of 132 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible. Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the bus itself can take them.
⏱ A default or per-trip field in your export.worth about +15 points in its category
Set trip_headsign to the trip's last stop or its overall destination.Likely your export tool
Some trip headsigns name a stop along the way, not the final destination. The sign should tell riders where the bus ends up, so a midpoint name can send them the wrong way.
⏱ Usually a bulk edit in your scheduling software.
Trillium produces and hosts this feed as a service. These changes are made on their side: send the fix list to your Trillium contact and they apply it and republish.
Finding handoff
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Select one finding. Copy the request, make the change in the feed-producing tool, then compare the next complete run.
- Feed evidence
- 89 of 89 stops don't say whether a wheelchair user can board there.
- Next action
- Set wheelchair_boarding to 1 (accessible) or 2 (not accessible) for every stop. A field survey can start with the busiest stops.
- Recheck
- Publish the changed feed at the same URL. On the next complete, comparable scorecard run, confirm that this finding is no longer reported.
Copy handoff text
- Feed evidence
- 132 of 132 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible.
- Next action
- Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip. If every vehicle is accessible, this may be one default; otherwise use the value for each trip.
- Recheck
- Publish the changed feed at the same URL. On the next complete, comparable scorecard run, confirm that this finding is no longer reported.
Copy handoff text
- Feed evidence
- Some trip headsigns name a stop along the way, not the final destination.
- Next action
- Set trip_headsign to the trip's last stop or its overall destination.
- Recheck
- Publish the changed feed at the same URL. On the next complete, comparable scorecard run, confirm that this finding is no longer reported.
Copy handoff text
How to make and check these changes
Check the result on the published feed. Read the guide, make the change in your tool, and use the next comparable run to see whether the finding is still reported. Only an action or ticket record can attribute who made the change.
Set wheelchair_boarding to 1 (accessible) or 2 (not accessible) for every stop. A field survey can start with the busiest stops. · Read the fix guide
Make the change. Trillium produces and hosts this feed as a service. These changes are made on their side: send the fix list to your Trillium contact and they apply it and republish.
Check the result. The next scorecard run checks this finding again. If a comparable check no longer reports it, the feed's clearance log records that result. This confirms feed state, not who made the change. See this feed's finding-clearance log.
Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip. If every vehicle is accessible, this may be one default; otherwise use the value for each trip. · Read the fix guide
Make the change. Trillium produces and hosts this feed as a service. These changes are made on their side: send the fix list to your Trillium contact and they apply it and republish.
Check the result. The next scorecard run checks this finding again. If a comparable check no longer reports it, the feed's clearance log records that result. This confirms feed state, not who made the change. See this feed's finding-clearance log.
Set trip_headsign to the trip's last stop or its overall destination.
Make the change. Trillium produces and hosts this feed as a service. These changes are made on their side: send the fix list to your Trillium contact and they apply it and republish.
Check the result. The next scorecard run checks this finding again. If a comparable check no longer reports it, the feed's clearance log records that result. This confirms feed state, not who made the change. See this feed's finding-clearance log.
Rider view: what this feed publishes
A quick read of rider-facing information in this feed.
- Schedule visibility
- The feed's last published service date is in 152 days.
- Published accessibility data
- Accessibility information is stated for 0% of stops and 0% of trips. This measures published data, not whether stops or vehicles are physically usable.
- Fare information
- Fare information is published using GTFS Fares v1.
- Realtime information
- Realtime-feed availability and live-arrival coverage are not known from this scorecard.
Important: This does not rate service reliability. Riders should confirm current service alerts, fares, and accessibility accommodations with the transit operator before traveling.
Send Trillium a fix request
This feed is produced and hosted by Trillium. Copy this and send it to your Trillium contact; they make the change and republish the feed. Each fix names the validator notice and a guide link.
Score by category
The MobilityData validator flagged 1 kind of issue across 22 instances (0 error, 0 warning, 22 informational).
Service data covers the next 152 days.
0% of stops state wheelchair accessibility (0% marked accessible, 0% marked not accessible). This measures what the feed publishes, not whether a stop is physically usable. Fare data is published.
0% of stops state accessibility (0% marked accessible). Reflects what the feed states, not verified physical usability.
2 accessibility depth signals
2 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (Orange, Red).
Consider: Adjust route_color or route_text_color so each pair clears 4.5:1. Often switching the text between black and white is enough.
71 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set ("1st St. SW and S Jefferson Ave.", "1st St. SW and S Monroe Ave.", "1st St. SW and S Crescent Dr.", and more).
Consider: Add tts_stop_name with the spoken form, e.g. 'Main Street and Second Avenue', for the affected stops.
Opportunities to strengthen the data, not deductions from the sub-score above. States what the second accessibility lens can check from the feed, not verified physical usability.
Fares are applied to trips.
Not scored yet. Nothing here counts against the grade.
Routes and stops
Each route is drawn once, using the longest shape its trips follow; stops are the dots.
This feed has 89 stops.
The route and stop data is ready below. Load the map only when you want the geographic view. It uses additional data.
Basemap: OpenFreeMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors. Routes and stops: this agency's GTFS feed.
- Blue (blue)
- Green (green)
- Orange (orange)
- Red (red)
- Purple (blue)
| Route | Type | Line color |
|---|---|---|
| Blue West Central | Bus | blue |
| Green North Central | Bus | green |
| Orange South Central | Bus | orange |
| Red East Central | Bus | red |
| Purple Northeast | Bus | blue |
List every stop
- 1st St. SW and S Monroe Ave.
- Mercy Medical Center
- West Plaza (HyVee West)
- Target Super Center
- Mercy Medical Center West
- Wal-Mart
- Salvation Army Thrift Store
- Willowbrook Mall
- S Pierce Ave. and 8th St. SW
- Central Park
- Fareway
- N Pennsylvania Ave. and 17th St. NE
- N Madison Ave. and 12th St. NW
- N Fillmore Ave. and 8th St. NW (Hoover School)
- Community Kitchen
- 4th St. NW and N Washington Ave.
- S President Ave. and 6th St. SW
- 8th St. SW and S Federal Ave.
- North Iowa Vocational Center
- S Monroe Ave. and 19th St. SW
- 21st St. SE and S Pennsylvania Ave.
- 15th St. SE and S Federal Ave.
- S Pennsylvania Ave. and 2nd St. SE
- S Pennsylvania Ave. and 6th St. SE
- 6th St. SE and S Carolina Ave.
- 6th St. SE and S Kentucky Ave.
- S Tennessee Ave. and Manor Dr.
- Regency Mall (HyVee East)
- Mason City Middle & High School
- E State St. and N Kentucky Ave.
- 3rd St. NE and N Pennsylvania Ave.
- N Georgia Ave. and 4th St. NE
- N Carolina Ave. and 9th St. NE (Northbound)
- Birch Dr. and N Kentucky Ave.
- N Kentucky Ave. and 12th St. NE
- North Iowa Area Community College
- 4th St. NE and N Georgia Ave.
- Salvation Army Activity Center
- 1st St. SW and S Jefferson Ave.
- 1st St. SW and S Crescent Dr.
- 8th St. SW and S Polk Pl.
- S Polk Ave. and 6th St. SW
- N Pennsylvania Ave. and 6th St. N
- N Pennsylvania Ave. and 9th St. N
- N Pennsylvania Ave. and 11th St. N
- 12th St. NE and N Carolina Ave.
- N Pennsylvania Ave. and 15th St. N (Gooch Park)
- 15th St. NW and N Federal Ave.
- 15th St. NW and N Adams Ave.
- 15th St. NW and N Madison Ave.
- 12th St. NW and N Harrison Ave.
- 12th St. NW and N Polk Ave. (Jell-o)
- N Jefferson Ave. and 4th St. NW
- N Pennsylvania Ave. and 13th St. N
- Mills Fleet Farm
- Frontage Rd. NW (McGregor Furniture)
- Best Buy
- S Taft Ave. and Briarstone Dr.
- S Taft Ave. and Frontage Rd. SW
- Frontage Rd. SW and Briarstone Dr. (Perkins)
- S President Ave. and 7th St. SW
- S Monroe Ave. and 20th Pl. SW
- S Pennsylvania Ave. and 19th St. SE
- S Pennsylvania Ave. and 17th St. SE (Lincoln Intermediate)
- S Federal Ave. and 12th St. SE
- S Federal Ave. and 7th St. SE
- S Delaware Ave. and 2nd St. SW
- 6th St. SE and S Connecticut Ave.
- 8th St. SE and S Virginia Ave.
- S Virginia Ave. and 6th St. SE
- 4th St. SE and S Kentucky Ave. (Heritage Care)
- 9th St. SE and S Indiana Ave.
- 9th St. SE and S Illinois Ave.
- E State St. and N Ohio Ave.
- N Georgia Ave. and 3rd St. NE (Good Shepherd Health)
- E State St. and 1st St. NE
- E State St. and S Virginia Ave.
- 4th St. NE and N Connecticut Ave.
- 4th St. NE and N Carolina Ave. (Northbound)
- N Carolina Ave. and 7th St. (Northbound)
- Birch Dr. and N Virginia Ave. (Swimming Pool)
- N Kentucky Ave. and 9th St. NE
- N Carolina Ave. and 9th St. NE (Southbound)
- N Carolina Ave. and 7th St. NE (Southbound)
- N Carolina Ave. and 4th St. NE (Southbound)
- Department of Human Services
- Kwik Star
- 23rd St. SW and S Jefferson Ave.
- 23rd St. SW and S Federal Ave.
Over time
Overall score across the last 4 checks — unchanged since 2026-07-31.
Show the numbers
| Check | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-25 | 87.2 | first check |
| 2026-07-30 | 87.2 | no change |
| 2026-07-31 | 87.2 | no change |
| 2026-08-01 | 87.2 | no change |
What changed since your last check
- Correctness no change
- Freshness no change
- Rider experience no change
What changed in this feed
Overall grade and score held steady since 2026-07-31.
Same feed file as 2026-07-31; the published zip did not change.
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Everything we checked
3 findings, ordered by severity.
Show every finding
- Warning132 instances
132 of 132 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible.
Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the bus itself can take them.
Fix: Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip. If every vehicle is accessible, this may be one default; otherwise use the value for each trip. (A default or per-trip field in your export.)
Finding code: scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown · Read the fix guide · See GTFS Schedule reference (opens the GTFS Schedule reference on an external site)
- Warning89 instances
89 of 89 stops don't say whether a wheelchair user can board there.
Riders who use wheelchairs can't plan a trip when accessibility is marked 'unknown'; apps show no information at all.
Fix: Set wheelchair_boarding to 1 (accessible) or 2 (not accessible) for every stop. A field survey can start with the busiest stops. (A column in stops.txt; your scheduling software likely has it.)
Finding code: scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown · Read the fix guide · See GTFS Schedule reference (opens the GTFS Schedule reference on an external site)
- Info22 instances
Some trip headsigns name a stop along the way, not the final destination.
The sign should tell riders where the bus ends up, so a midpoint name can send them the wrong way.
Fix: Set trip_headsign to the trip's last stop or its overall destination. (Usually a bulk edit in your scheduling software.)
Finding code: trip_headsign_matches_intermediate_stop · See MobilityData GTFS Validator rules (opens the validator rules on an external site)
NTD GTFS readiness Ready
Published at a public URL, valid, current, and identified with agency_id: the four feed checks for RY2026 all hold here. Only your own D-10 and P-50 filings make that official; this is a heads-up, not a determination.
- Published Ready
- Published at a public URL.
- Valid Ready
- Passes validation with no errors.
- Current Ready
- Service data covers the next 152 days.
- agency_id provided Ready
- agency.txt provides agency_id. For RY2026, keep one stable value for each NTD reporter represented in the feed and crosswalk each value on the P-50 form.
- agency_id equals your NTD ID (optional) Not checked yet
- This feed provides agency_id. For RY2026, keep one stable value for each NTD reporter represented in the feed and crosswalk it on the P-50 form. The value does not need to equal the five-digit NTD ID; we do not have that ID on file, so the optional equality comparison is not checked yet.
- shapes.txt covers your trips Ready
- All 132 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.
In plain words: if you report to the federal transit database, you have to publish a working, up-to-date feed, provide a stable agency_id for each represented reporter, and confirm the feed and P-50 crosswalk each year. This box is a heads-up; your filings are the official check.
A readiness signal mapping this feed to the FTA National Transit Database GTFS requirement (Report Year 2023 onward: a public, valid, current feed, certified annually on the D-10). For RY2026, each represented reporter needs a stable agency_id, unique within the feed and crosswalked to its five-digit NTD ID on P-50; the values do not need to be equal. FTA also requires shapes.txt in the published GTFS: Full Reporters from Report Year 2025, and Reduced, Rural, and Tribal Reporters from Report Year 2026. Not an official determination; your certification is the official check.
Conformance mark Not yet
This feed is close to the conformance mark. States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each.
- Valid Met
- Passes validation with no errors.
- Current Met
- Service data covers the next 152 days.
- Accessible Not yet
- States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each.
In plain words: earn this mark when your feed passes validation, has not expired, and says whether nearly every stop and trip is wheelchair accessible.
A pass credential for a feed that is valid, current, and states wheelchair access on nearly every stop and trip. Accessibility here measures what the feed publishes, not whether a stop is physically usable. How the conformance mark works.
Clears the Google and Apple Maps four-week coverage bar. This feed has 152 days of service ahead, clearing the four-week (28-day) window Maps asks for. No validator errors either, so riders keep seeing this agency in their trip planners; warnings lower the grade here but do not remove a feed from Maps.
How this agency maps to the standards
The scorecard is a data-quality lens, not a compliance determination. Its universal references describe good GTFS and useful rider information. Useful references here are GTFS Schedule Best Practices, GTFS-Realtime Best Practices, MobilityData grading scheme, Google Transit publication guidance, FTA National Transit Database GTFS requirement. Read the full standards crosswalk.
- Correctness 99 / 100
- GTFS Schedule best practices, checked by the MobilityData validator. MobilityData grading covers stop locations, route names, and colors. Google Transit requires a feed to pass validation for publication. FTA NTD readiness also checks that the published feed is valid.
- Freshness 100 / 100
- GTFS Schedule best practices call for a dataset that stays current. An expired calendar can remove service from Google Transit and other rider trip planners. FTA NTD readiness also checks that the published feed is current.
- Rider experience 60 / 100
- GTFS Best Practices for rider-facing fields. MobilityData grading covers stop names and headsigns.
- Realtime quality Not yet published
- GTFS-Realtime best practices: a stable URL, high uptime, and frequent updates.
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