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Feed status · checked 2026-07-09
Montachusett Regional Transit Authority (MART)
Based on the feed this agency publishes
unchanged since 2026-07-08
Ahead of 76% of all tracked agencies and 75% of mid-size agencies. Operates in Massachusetts.
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Checked for changes 3 hours ago; last changed 8 days ago.
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
204 of 204 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
Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip (most small-agency fleets are 100% accessible, so this is often a single default).Likely your export tool
2013 of 2013 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible. Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the bus itself can take them.
⏱ Often one default setting in your export.worth about +15 points
Agencies here usually clear this within about 1 week (based on 5 observed fixes).
Remove retired stops from the export, or add them back to the trips that should serve them.Likely your export tool
Some stops exist in the feed but no trip ever stops at them. Riders may walk to a stop where no bus is scheduled to arrive.
⏱ A review pass in your scheduling software.worth about +8 points
Agencies here usually clear this within about 1 week (based on 11 observed fixes).
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.
Close the loop on each fix. Read the guide, make the change in your tool, and let the next run verify it — the scorecard shows the fix; the agency publishes it.
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.
Prove it cleared. The next scorecard run re-checks this automatically and, once it is gone, mints a dated receipt. Self-check a feed before you publish.
Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip (most small-agency fleets are 100% accessible, so this is often a single default). · 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.
Prove it cleared. The next scorecard run re-checks this automatically and, once it is gone, mints a dated receipt. Self-check a feed before you publish.
Remove retired stops from the export, or add them back to the trips that should serve them. · 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.
Prove it cleared. The next scorecard run re-checks this automatically and, once it is gone, mints a dated receipt. Self-check a feed before you publish.
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 6 kinds of issue across 155 instances (0 error, 109 warning, 46 informational).
Service data covers the next 83 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.
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.
Skip to route and stop dataBasemap: OpenFreeMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors. Routes and stops: this agency's GTFS feed.
- Clinton-Worcester Commuter Shuttle (teal)
- 1 (orange)
- 2 (red)
- 3 (orange)
- 4 (gray)
- 5 (purple)
- 6 (black)
- 7 (black)
- 8 (green)
- 9 (red)
- 11 (purple)
- Gardner Route 1 (green)
- Gardner Route 2 (yellow)
- GLink: Gardner/Athol (red)
- GLink: Gardner to Winchendon (purple)
- GLink: Winchendon to Gardner (purple)
- Athol/Orange Shuttle (red)
- Boston Shuttle (yellow)
- Wachusett Commuter Shuttle (brown)
- Gardner Route 3 (orange)
- Harvard Commuter Shuttle (gray)
- Emerson Hospital Shuttle (green)
| Route | Type | Line color |
|---|---|---|
| Clinton-Worcester Commuter Shuttle | Bus | teal |
| FSU Shuttle | Bus | white (no shape in feed) |
| 1 Fitchburg/Leominster/Lunenburg | Bus | orange |
| 2 Fitchburg/Leominster | Bus | red |
| 3 Fitchburg/Leominster/Lunenburg | Bus | orange |
| 4 Fitchburg State University | Bus | gray |
| 5 Fitchburg | Bus | purple |
| 6 Fitchburg | Bus | black |
| 7 Fitchburg/Lunenburg | Bus | black |
| 8 Leominster/Lancaster | Bus | green |
| 9 Leominster | Bus | red |
| 11 Intermodal/Wachusett/Great Wolf | Bus | purple |
| Gardner Route 1 | Bus | green |
| Gardner Route 2 | Bus | yellow |
| GLink: Gardner/Athol | Bus | red |
| GLink: Gardner to Winchendon | Bus | purple |
| GLink: Winchendon to Gardner | Bus | purple |
| Intercity/MWCC | Bus | gray (no shape in feed) |
| Athol/Orange Shuttle | Bus | red |
| Boston Shuttle | Bus | yellow |
| 5A Reingold School | Bus | green (no shape in feed) |
| 5A Reingold School PM | Bus | green (no shape in feed) |
| Wachusett Commuter Shuttle | Bus | brown |
| 5A - Memorial School | Bus | green (no shape in feed) |
| Gardner Route 3 | Bus | orange |
| Harvard Commuter Shuttle | Bus | gray |
| Emerson Hospital Shuttle | Bus | green |
This feed has 204 stops.
List every stop
- Main Street and Blossom Street
- Blossom Street and Pearl Street
- Canton/Salem and Heywood Street
- Pearl Street and Cedar Street
- Charles Street and Rollstone Street
- Clarendon Street and Daniels Street
- Franklin Road at Cozy Kids
- Franklin Road and St Joseph Avenue
- Green Street and North Street
- Franklin Road and Hurd Street
- Clarendon Street at Kid's Stop
- McKay School
- Rollstone Street and Pine Street
- Pratt Road and Clarendon Street
- Reingold School
- Rollston Street and Laurel Street
- South Street School
- Clarendon Street and Electric Avenue
- Wachusett Station
- Great Wolf Lodge
- MART Garage (City Line), Fitchburg
- 100 Main St, Leominster @ Sunset Towers
- 1091 Water St @ Wanoosnoc Ave, Fitchburg
- Fitchburg Green, 350 Water St, Fitchburg
- 141 Water Street, Fitchburg
- 130 Water St @ Central Plaza, Fitchburg
- 78 Daniels St, Fitchburg
- Registry Motor Vehicles (RMV), Leominster
- Reliant Medical, Leominster
- Littleton Town Hall & Library WB
- IBM (Bus Stop)
- Hampton Inn/Technology Drive
- Technology Park Entrance (bus shelter)
- Juniper Networks (park & ride lot)
- Red Hat
- Littleton Common WB
- Littleton Common EB
- Littleton Town Hall and Library EB
- SS Lobster
- Orange Center/Main St (Westbound)
- Orange Center/Main St (Eastbound)
- Dairy Queen (Treat)
- Independent Cleaners
- British American Club
- Theater Block
- Aubuchon Hall
- Pearl St and Highland Ave
- Cross St & South St
- Green Street and Snow Street
- North Street and Congress Street
- Downtown Clinton (48 High Street)
- Porter & Chester Institute (Worcester)
- Simonds Hall
- Hammond Hall
- Weston Auditorium
- Herlihy Hall
- Twin City (Burger King)
- Lake Dennison Picnic and Swim Area (Northbound)
- King Phillip Restaurant, Phillipston (Westbound)
- Athol Memorial Hospital (Eastbound)
- Major Taylor Blvd & Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
- Devens - MWCC Campus
- Upper Common
- Salem/Canton and Heywoood Street
- Worcester Medical/ St. Vincent
- Memorial
- U-Mass Medical
- Reliant Medical Neponset St
- Worcester VA
- The Mall at Whitney Field (McDonald's)
- Shirley Town Offices
- Shirley MBTA Station
- Shriver Job Corps Center
- Francis W. Parker School
- O'Reilly / SMC
- Devens Common
- Taravista Care Center
- Quiet Logistics / Food Pantry
- Nypro / Jabil
- Ayer MBTA Station
- Ayer-Shirley High School
- Nashoba Valley Medical Center
- Downtown Ayer / Main Street
- American Superconductor
- Ayer Traffic Circle
- Memorial Middle School
- Kimball St & Rollstone St
- River St and Oak Hill Rd
- Clarendon St & Pratt Rd
- North Quabbin Family Physicians (Westbound)
- Pequoig Ave/Exchange Street
- North Quabbin Family Physicians (Eastbound)
- Market Basket, Littleton, MA
- Bolton
- Hardwick
- Hubbardston
- Lancaster
- Lunenburg
- Sterling
- Townsend Town Hall
- Hannaford/ CVS
- Gardner CHC
- Business Plaza at 285 Ayer Rd
- Harvard Town Hall (Parking Lot)
- West & Foss
- Shirley Senior Center (9 Parker Rd)
- Ayer Public Library (26 E Main St)
- Emerson Hospital Center for Specialty Care
- Hannaford
- 5th & Spruce St.
- Marshalls Plaza (N. Main St.)
- AIS
- MART Intermodal Transportation Center, Fitchburg
- South Street & Pine Street, Fitchburg
- Monument Square West Street, Leominster
- Mall at Whitney Field - Market Basket, Leominster
- Mall at Whitney Field - Food Court, Leominster
- Commuter Rail Station, Leominster
- Industrial Road, Leominster
- Kings Corner, Leominster
- Whalom Road & Summer Street, Lunenburg
- MART Garage (City Line), Fitchburg
- Leominster Hospital
- Johnny Appleseed Plaza, Leominster
- Jytek Industrial Park, Leominster
- Wal-Mart Plaza, Leominster
- Water Tower Plaza, Leominster
- Erdman Way (MWCC Leominster)
- Fitchburg State University (Dining Hall)
- Wallace Civic Center (Parking Lot), Fitchburg
- Joseph House (Daniels St.), Fitchburg
- Parkill Plaza (Electric Ave.), Fitchburg
- Burbank, Fitchburg
- Fitchburg High School
- Wallace Plaza (Market Basket), Fitchburg
- Lunenburg Crossing (Wal-Mart/Hannaford)
- Central Plaza (Market Basket), Fitchburg
- Waites Corner (Westminster St.), Fitchburg
- Montachusett Industrial Park, Fitchburg
- D'Ambrosio Eye Center, Lancaster
- Orchard Hill Park - Target, Leominster
- Orchard Hill Park - Kohl's, Leominster
- La Pierre Building East (Spruce St.), Leominster
- Leominster Senior Center
- Henry Heywood Hospital, Gardner
- Gardner Highrise
- Olde English Village, Gardner
- Wal-Mart Plaza, Gardner
- Timpany Plaza, Gardner
- Heritage Village/South Gardner Center
- Gardner Plaza
- MART Maintenance Facility, Gardner
- Dunn Pond, Gardner
- Hillside Gardens, Gardner
- Heywood-Wakefield Building, Gardner
- Gardner City Hall (rear)/Connors Street
- East Templeton (Route 2A & Route 101),Gardner
- Templeton Center
- King Phillip Restaurant, Phillipston (Eastbound)
- Athol Memorial Hospital (Westbound)
- Uptown Common, Athol (Eastbound)
- YMCA, Athol
- Ocean State Job Lot, Athol
- Hannaford Supermarket, Athol
- Wal-Mart, Orange
- Otter River - Route 68 & Main Street, Gardner
- Route 68 and Route 202, Baldwinville
- Lake Dennison Picnic and Swim Area (Southbound)
- Waterville Plaza, Winchendon
- Winchendon Post Office
- Winchendon Town Hall (Pleasant Street)
- Fitchburg State University (Recreation Center)
- Friendly's (Routes 12 & 2), Leominster
- Upper Common Post Office
- Putnam Place, Fitchburg
- Market Basket (Athol)
- Mt. Wachusett Community College Lot B
- Village Square Westminster (Street Side)
- Senior Center Westminster (Street Side)
- Orange Innovation Center
- Cottage Street Apartments, Athol
- Cottage Street Apartments, Athol
- Uptown Common, Athol (Westbound)
- Athol High School
- Heywood Place, Gardner
- East Templeton (Route 2A & Route 101),Gardner
- Rt 2/495 Littleton Station
- Concord/Emerson Hospital-Main Entrance
- Bedford VA-Ambulance Entrance
- Crossroads Office Park (Mechanic St.), Leominster
- Levi Heywood Memorial Library, Gardner
- Price Chopper, Gardner
- Gardner District Court (curbside)
- Gardner High School
- Fitchburg State University
- Main & Nashua (Commuter Rail)
- Monument Square
- Monument Square Main Street, Leominster
- Twin City Marketplace (Hannaford)
- Twin City Marketplace (Bob's)
- Gardner Highrise
- Worcester Court House
- Worcester City Hall
- Union Station
Over time
Overall score across the last 9 checks — unchanged since 2026-07-08.
Show the numbers
| Check | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 78.0 | first check |
| 2026-07-01 | 78.0 | no change |
| 2026-07-02 | 78.0 | no change |
| 2026-07-04 | 78.0 | no change |
| 2026-07-05 | 78.0 | no change |
| 2026-07-06 | 78.0 | no change |
| 2026-07-07 | 78.0 | no change |
| 2026-07-08 | 78.0 | no change |
| 2026-07-09 | 78.0 | 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 2026-07-08.
Same feed file as 2026-07-08; the published zip did not change.
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Everything we checked
- Warning2013 instances
2013 of 2013 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 (most small-agency fleets are 100% accessible, so this is often a single default). (Often one default setting in your export.)
Agencies here usually clear this within about 1 week (based on 5 observed fixes).
Validator rule: scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown · Read the fix guide · See GTFS Schedule reference (opens the GTFS Schedule reference on an external site)
- Warning339 instances
339 of 2013 trips have no headsign.
Riders at the stop can't tell which direction a bus is going.
Fix: Populate trip_headsign to match what the bus displays. (Usually a bulk edit in your scheduling software.)
Validator rule: scorecard_missing_headsigns · Read the fix guide · See GTFS Best Practices (opens GTFS Best Practices on an external site)
- Warning204 instances
204 of 204 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.)
Validator rule: scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown · Read the fix guide · See GTFS Schedule reference (opens the GTFS Schedule reference on an external site)
- Warning90 instances
Some stops exist in the feed but no trip ever stops at them.
Riders may walk to a stop where no bus is scheduled to arrive.
Fix: Remove retired stops from the export, or add them back to the trips that should serve them. (A review pass in your scheduling software.)
Agencies here usually clear this within about 1 week (based on 11 observed fixes).
Validator rule: stop_without_stop_time · Read the fix guide · See MobilityData GTFS Validator rules (opens the validator rules on an external site)
- Warning15 instances
Some scheduled trips travel implausibly fast between stops.
Usually a typo'd stop time; riders get impossible arrival estimates.
Fix: Check the flagged stop times for transposed minutes. (A few minutes per flagged trip.)
Agencies here usually clear this within about 2 weeks (based on 6 observed fixes).
Validator rule: fast_travel_between_consecutive_stops · Read the fix guide · See MobilityData GTFS Validator rules (opens the validator rules on an external site)
- Warning4 instances
Some service calendars in the feed have already expired.
Expired calendars are dead weight and can hide real schedule problems from your staff and vendors.
Fix: Remove past service periods the next time you export the feed. (One setting in most export tools.)
Agencies here usually clear this within about 1 week (based on 61 observed fixes).
Validator rule: expired_calendar · Read the fix guide · See MobilityData GTFS Validator rules (opens the validator rules on an external site)
- Warning1 instance
This feed describes flexible (demand-responsive) service but has no booking_rules.txt.
Riders can see the service area but not how or when to reserve a trip, so they can't actually use the service.
Fix: Add booking_rules.txt saying how far ahead and how to book (phone, app, or web). (A small file; one rule often covers the whole service.)
Validator rule: scorecard_flex_no_booking_rules · Read the fix guide · See GTFS Schedule reference (opens the GTFS Schedule reference on an external site)
- Info34 instances
Some files contain columns that are not part of the GTFS spec.
Harmless to riders, but apps ignore these columns and they can hide typos in real column names.
Fix: Check the flagged column names for misspellings of standard GTFS fields; remove them if they are vendor extras. (A quick look at the flagged files.)
Validator rule: unknown_column · Read the fix guide · See MobilityData GTFS Validator rules (opens the validator rules on an external site)
- Info8 instances
Unknown file (flagged by the MobilityData validator).
See the linked rule for what this affects.
Fix: Review the rule documentation for 'unknown_file' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed. (Varies.)
Agencies here usually clear this within about 1 week (based on 6 observed fixes).
Validator rule: unknown_file · Read the fix guide · See MobilityData GTFS Validator rules (opens the validator rules on an external site)
- Info4 instances
Service window outside feed period (flagged by the MobilityData validator).
See the linked rule for what this affects.
Fix: Review the rule documentation for 'service_window_outside_feed_period' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed. (Varies.)
Agencies here usually clear this within about 1 week (based on 17 observed fixes).
Validator rule: service_window_outside_feed_period · Read the fix guide · See MobilityData GTFS Validator rules (opens the validator rules on an external site)
Beyond the grade
Opportunities that do not change your grade today: fare detail, on-demand service, and deeper accessibility data.
Flex zones are published but no booking_rules.txt is present.
Consider: Add booking_rules.txt with how far ahead and how to reserve (phone, app, or web).
51 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set ("Canton/Salem and Heywood Street", "Franklin Road and St Joseph Avenue", "100 Main St, Leominster @ Sunset Towers", and more).
Consider: Add tts_stop_name with the spoken form, e.g. 'Main Street and Second Avenue', for the affected stops.
Some fixes we can make for you
These are the safe mechanical fixes, applied to a copy of your feed. They change only what is certain and leave everything else untouched. Review the diff before you publish.
Trimmed surrounding whitespace 2 changes
For example: 'route_long_name': 'Athol/Orange Shuttle ' -> 'Athol/Orange Shuttle'
Run it yourself on your own copy of the feed: scorecard autofix <feed.zip> --out corrected.zip
NTD certification readiness Ready
Published at a public URL, valid, and current: the three things the NTD GTFS requirement asks of a feed all hold here. Only your own D-10 certification makes 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 83 days.
- agency_id matches your NTD ID Not checked yet
- Setting your GTFS agency_id to your five-digit NTD ID is an optional way to line a feed up with its National Transit Database record. FTA links the two on your P-50 form, so it is not a required feed change. We don't have your NTD ID on file, so this is not checked yet.
In plain words: if you report to the federal transit database, you have to publish a working, up-to-date feed and confirm it once a year. This box is a heads-up on whether yours looks ready; it is not the official sign-off.
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). Aligning agency_id with your NTD ID lets the feed line up with your NTD record; the July 2025 final rule links the two on the P-50 form rather than requiring that feed change, and 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 83 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.
Can riders use it?
Checks beyond structural validation: places where the feed is valid but a rider still could not travel.
- 90 of 204 boardable stops are never served by any trip. Riders see these stops in apps and on the map but can never catch anything there, which erodes trust in the data. Remove stops no route serves, or add the trips that should call at them.
These do not change the grade. They catch trips with no rideable leg and stops no trip serves, the kind of gap a trip planner trips over.
Clears the Google and Apple Maps four-week coverage bar. This feed has 83 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
A data-quality lens, not a compliance determination. Each category shows this feed's score and the standards it relates to: the FTA National Transit Database GTFS requirement, the MobilityData grading scheme, and the Google Transit gate. Read the full standards crosswalk.
- Correctness 80 / 100
- GTFS Schedule best practices, checked by the MobilityData validator. MobilityData grading: stop locations, route names and colors. Google Transit: a feed must pass validation to stay in Maps.
- Freshness 100 / 100
- The FTA National Transit Database expectation of a valid, current feed. Google Transit: an expired calendar drops the agency from Maps.
- Rider experience 58 / 100
- GTFS Best Practices for rider-facing fields. MobilityData grading: 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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