Call-prep brief · checked 2026-08-01
Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District (MTD)
Grade C · 74.2 / 100
Down 0.5 points since 2026-07-31 (C to C).
For this call: lead with the grade and the three fixes below, then confirm the feed is current and the NTD details line up. Each fix is framed as a next step, not a failure.
What changed since the last check
- Correctness no change
- Freshness down 1.7
- Rider experience no change
Top three things to fix
Re-export with a validity window that reaches at least 60 days out.
Service data runs out in 15 day(s). When the calendar runs out, trip planners stop showing this agency. Fixing it now is calmer than after riders notice.
Effort: One export setting.
Check the flagged stop times for transposed minutes.
Some scheduled trips move faster between stops than a bus can. Usually a typo'd stop time; riders get arrival times no bus can meet.
Effort: A few minutes per flagged trip.
Remove past service periods the next time you export the feed.
Some service calendars in the feed have already ended. Expired calendars are dead weight and can hide real schedule problems from your staff and vendors.
Effort: One setting in most export tools.
Finding handoff
Move one finding to a recheck
Select one finding. Copy the request, make the change in the feed-producing tool, then compare the next complete run.
- Feed evidence
- Service data runs out in 15 day(s).
- Next action
- Re-export with a validity window that reaches at least 60 days out.
- 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 scheduled trips move faster between stops than a bus can.
- Next action
- Check the flagged stop times for transposed minutes.
- 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 service calendars in the feed have already ended.
- Next action
- Remove past service periods the next time you export the feed.
- 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
Ready to send to the agency
Hi Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District (MTD) team, Service data runs out in 15 day(s). When the calendar runs out, trip planners stop showing this agency. Fixing it now is calmer than after riders notice. The fix is usually one export setting: Re-export with a validity window that reaches at least 60 days out. This came from your GTFS data quality scorecard, which checks the feed you publish and lists the fixes in plain language: https://gtfsscorecard.org/agency/santa-barbara-metropolitan-transit-district-mtd/
NTD GTFS readiness: Needs attention
This feed is close to NTD-ready. Service data runs out in 15 days; renew before you certify.
- Published Ready
- Published at a public URL.
- Valid Ready
- Passes validation with no errors.
- Current Needs attention
- Service data runs out in 15 days; renew before you certify.
- 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 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.
Key facts
- Feed URL
- http://sbmtd.gov/google_transit/feed.zip
- Last checked
- 2026-08-01
- Service window
- 15 days of service data remain. Last service date 2026-08-16.
- Feed version
- S1000258
A data-quality and completeness read to support an agency conversation. Not an official compliance determination. Rubric v1.3, validator 8.0.1.