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Feed status · checked 2026-07-09
Placer County Transit
Based on the feed this agency publishes
unchanged since 2026-07-08
Ahead of 83% of all tracked agencies and 82% of mid-size agencies. Operates in California.
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Checked for changes 13 minutes 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
149 of 151 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
180 of 180 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 +6 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 72 instances (0 error, 24 warning, 48 informational).
Service data covers the next 84 days.
1% of stops state wheelchair accessibility (1% marked accessible, 0% marked not accessible). This measures what the feed publishes, not whether a stop is physically usable. Fare data is published.
1% of stops state accessibility (1% 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.
- 30 (orange)
- 70 (yellow)
- 60 (green)
- 40 (red)
- 20 (green)
- 10 (purple)
- 80 (teal)
| Route | Type | Line color |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Highway 49 | Bus | orange |
| 70 Lincoln Circulator | Bus | yellow |
| 60 Placer Commuter Express | Bus | green |
| 40 Alta/Colfax | Bus | red |
| 20 Lincoln / Sierra College | Bus | green |
| 10 Auburn to Light Rail (Watt/I-80) | Bus | purple |
| 80 Lincoln Circulator Overflow | Bus | teal |
This feed has 151 stops.
List every stop
- Auburn Station
- Sierra College
- Roseville Galleria
- Louis Ln & Orlando Ave
- Sierra College
- Light Rail - Watt I80
- Granite Dr (Safeway)
- Sierra Meadows Dr & Manzanita Dr
- Sierra Meadows Dr & Chaparral Ct (AFM Rocklin Lanes)
- Sierra Meadows Dr & Pacific St
- Pacific St & Midas Ave
- Pacific St & Pine St
- Pacific St & Bush St
- Pacific St & Farron St
- Pacific St & Sunset Blvd (Les Schwab)
- Sunset Blvd & Springview Dr
- S Whitney Blvd & Sunset Blvd
- S Whitney Blvd & Springview Dr
- S Whitney Blvd & Lincoln Ave
- Stanford Ranch Rd & Fairway Dr
- Stanford Ranch Rd & Highland Park Dr
- Sunset Blvd & Pebble Creek Dr (Bel Air)
- Sunset Blvd & Park Dr
- Sunset Blvd & Blue Oaks Blvd
- Sunset Blvd & W Oaks Blvd
- Sunset Blvd & W Stanford Ranch Rd
- Sunset Blvd & Atherton Rd
- Twelve Bridges Library
- Thunder Valley Casino
- Sunset Blvd & Atherton Rd
- Sunset Blvd & Lonetree Blvd
- Sunset Blvd & W Oaks Blvd
- Sunset Blvd & Blue Oaks Blvd
- Sunset Blvd & Park Dr
- Sunset Blvd & Pebble Creek Dr
- Stanford Ranch Rd & Plaza Dr
- Stanford Ranch Rd & Fairway Dr
- S Whitney Blvd & Lincoln Ave
- S Whitney Blvd & Springview Dr
- S Whitney Blvd & Sunset Blvd
- Sunset Blvd & Springview Dr
- Pacific St & Sunset Blvd
- Pacific St & Farron St
- Pacific St & Bush St
- Pacific St & Pine St
- Pacific St & Midas Ave
- Pacific St & Sierra Meadows Dr
- Sierra Meadows Dr & Chaparral Ct (AFM Rocklin Lanes)
- Granite Dr & Sierra Meadows Dr
- Target
- Rocklin Crossings (Walmart)
- Granite Dr (Across from Church)
- Nevada St & Enterprise Dr (Post Office)
- Nevada St (Theater)
- Hwy 49 & Edgewood Rd
- Hwy 49 & Luther Rd
- Atwood Rd (Drive In)
- Richardson Dr & B Ave
- F Ave & 1st St (DeWitt)
- Hwy 49 & Atwood Rd (Bel Air)
- Plaza Dr & Plaza Way
- Target
- Professional Dr & Bell Rd
- Education St & Professional Dr
- Locksley Ln & Hwy 49 (NID)
- Earhart Dr & Rickenbacker Way
- Galena Dr & Quartz Dr
- Sapphire Dr & Garnet Way
- Chana Park
- Richardson Dr & Dry Creek
- Dry Creek Rd & Dry Lake Ln
- Hwy 49 & Dry Creek Rd (RCMHP)
- Hwy 49 & Quartz Dr
- Plaza Dr & Plaza Way
- Bell Rd & County Center Dr
- Atwood Rd & Corral Dr
- Atwood Park and Ride
- Hwy 49 & Luther Rd
- Hwy 49 and Live Oak Ln
- Nevada Way & Nevada St
- Nevada St (Theater)
- Nevada St & Enterprise Dr (Post Office)
- 1st St & C Ave (DeWitt)
- Hwy 49 & Atwood Rd (Bel Air)
- Colfax Depot
- Alta Store
- Ophir Park and Ride
- Newcastle Hwy & Taylor Road WB
- Taylor Rd & English Colony Way (Penryn)
- Taylor Rd & Penryn Rd
- Del Oro High School
- Taylor Rd & King Rd
- Taylor Rd & Walnut St
- Taylor Rd & Shawn Way
- Taylor Rd & Shawn Way
- Taylor Rd & Horseshoe Bar Rd
- Taylor Rd & King Rd
- Del Oro High School
- Taylor Rd & Penryn Rd
- Taylor Rd & English Colony Way (Penryn)
- Newcastle Hwy & Taylor Road EB
- Clipper Gap Park and Ride
- Penryn Park and Ride
- Loomis Station
- Rocklin Station
- Roseville - Taylor Rd Park and Ride (Sunsplash)
- J St & 4th St
- J St & 8th St
- J St & 11th St
- 15th St & K St
- 15th St & N St
- P St & 13th St
- P St & 9th St
- P St & 5th St
- 3rd St & F St (Walmart)
- E St & 1st St
- Ferrari Ranch Rd & Lincoln Blvd
- Sterling Pkwy & Joiner Pkwy
- Ferrari Ranch Rd & Groveland Ln
- Ferrari Ranch Rd & Sorrento Pkwy
- Ferrari Ranch Rd & Caledon Cir
- Ferrari Ranch Rd & E Caledon Cir
- Ferrari Ranch Rd & Groveland Ln (Southbound)
- Ferrari Ranch Rd & Kensington Ln
- Lincoln Blvd & Ferrari Ranch Rd
- Lincoln Blvd & 1st St
- 1st St & F St
- 1st St & I St
- 1st St & L St
- 1st St & O St
- R St & Shamrock Ct
- 3rd St before P St (Lincoln Senior Apt)
- 5th St after O St
- 5th St after 14th Alley (Between L St & M St)
- J St & 6th St
- 7th St & J St (High School)
- 7th St & F St
- 7th St & C St
- East Ave & 6th St
- McBean Park Dr & A St
- McBean Park Dr & E St
- 3rd St & F St (across Walmart)
- Nicolaus and Joiner
- Foskett Ranch School
- Venture at Lakeside
- Lakeside Dr after Floradale Way / Cobblestone Dr
- Lakeside Dr at St Andrews
- 12th and East St
- Ferrari Ranch Rd after Danbury
- Kaiser Lincoln (South Entrance)
- Twelve Bridges Middle School (Wilson Park)
Over time
Overall score across the last 9 checks — unchanged since 2026-07-08.
Show the numbers
| Check | Score | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 80.5 | first check |
| 2026-07-01 | 80.5 | no change |
| 2026-07-02 | 80.5 | no change |
| 2026-07-04 | 80.5 | no change |
| 2026-07-05 | 80.5 | no change |
| 2026-07-06 | 80.5 | no change |
| 2026-07-07 | 80.5 | no change |
| 2026-07-08 | 80.5 | no change |
| 2026-07-09 | 80.5 | 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
- Warning180 instances
180 of 180 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)
- Warning149 instances
149 of 151 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)
- Warning17 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)
- Warning4 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)
- Warning3 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)
- Info6 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).
2 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (10, 40).
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.
125 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set ("Louis Ln & Orlando Ave", "Granite Dr (Safeway)", "Sierra Meadows Dr & Manzanita Dr", 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': 'Placer Commuter Express ' -> 'Placer Commuter Express'
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 84 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 1% 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 84 days.
- Accessible Not yet
- States wheelchair access on 1% 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.
- 17 of 151 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 84 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.
In California, the published guideline is California Transit Data Guidelines. Caltrans' published quality guidelines and compliance checklist; this rubric is anchored to them.
California Minimum GTFS Guidelines checklist (4 of 5 measured items met)
The state's own Data Process Checklist, matched item by item to what this scorecard already measures. An item marked "not measured here" is real ground the checklist covers that this tool does not check; see the official checklist for the full picture.
- Meets Publish GTFS Schedule at a stable, automatically-fetchable URL
The published feed URL downloaded at the last check.
- Not measured here Implement required fields: Fares v2, text-to-speech stop names, shapes.txt, wheelchair_boarding, and Pathways where applicable
This scorecard measures wheelchair_boarding, shapes.txt coverage, fare data, and station pathways separately, below; it does not check the Fares v2 format specifically or text-to-speech stop names.
- Not measured here Achieve a passing score in every category of the MobilityData GTFS Grading Scheme v1
This scorecard automates a proxy for the Grading Scheme's rider-facing fields (see the standards crosswalk) rather than running the scheme itself, which grades by comparison to the real world by hand.
- Not measured here Publish changes to the base schedule at least one week ahead of every service change
This scorecard does not track a feed's publish history, so advance notice cannot be checked.
- Meets Produce no critical errors in the MobilityData GTFS Validator
Passes validation with no errors.
- Not measured here Publish Trip Updates, Vehicle Positions, and Alerts feeds
This scorecard checks realtime reachability and freshness overall; it does not check for all three feed types individually.
- Not measured here Update Trip Updates and Vehicle Positions at least every 20 seconds
This scorecard samples realtime freshness; it does not check this specific 20-second cadence.
- Not measured here Publish information for at least 99% of vehicles in service
This scorecard measures the share of scheduled trips represented in TripUpdates, a related but different figure than vehicle coverage.
- Not measured here Keep 100% of trip_ids consistent between Schedule and Realtime
This scorecard does not currently check trip_id consistency between the Schedule and Realtime feeds.
- Not measured here Produce no critical errors in the Center for Urban Transportation Research realtime validator
This scorecard does not run the CUTR realtime validator.
- Not measured here Publish accessible feed links on the agency or regional partner website
This scorecard does not check the agency's own website.
- Not measured here Register GTFS and GTFS-Realtime feeds with transit.land and the Mobility Database
This scorecard does not currently check aggregator registration for this section.
- Meets Designate a technical contact in feed_info.txt's feed_contact_email
feed_info.txt states a technical contact.
- Gap wheelchair_boarding stated on stops and trips
States wheelchair access on 1% of stops and 0% of trips.
- Not measured here shapes.txt with a shape for every trip
Shape coverage has not been measured for this feed.
- Meets Fare data published, or the service marked fare-free
Fare data is published.
- Correctness 84 / 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 60 / 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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