Board packet · transit data quality · checked 2026-08-23

Seastreak Ferry

Grade C · 73.5 / 100

Unchanged since 2026-08-22.

What this grade measures

The quality of the schedule data in the feed scored here for trip-planning apps: whether riders using Google Maps, Apple Maps, or Transit see current, correct, and complete information. It measures the data feed, not service quality or operations.

Progress this period

No newly cleared items this period. The score and trend above reflect where the feed stands today.

What needs attention next

Three improvements, in priority order, each sized so the board can see what it is approving:

Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip. If every vehicle is accessible, this may be one default; otherwise use the value for each trip.
310 of 310 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible. Even with accessible terminals, riders need to know the vessel itself can take them.
Estimated effort: A default or per-trip field in your export.
Add fare_attributes.txt (or Fares v2 files) with your fare structure. If your service is fare-free, ask to have it marked fare-free instead.
The feed contains no fare information. Riders see 'fare unknown' in trip planners and can't budget their trip; visitors are most affected.
Estimated effort: A small file for most flat-fare systems.
Set timepoint=1 on stops that are real time checks and 0 on the rest. If every published time is a scheduled one, mark them all 1.
Some rows in stop_times.txt leave the timepoint column blank. That column says whether a time is a real checkpoint or an estimate. Blank leaves apps guessing, and they may show your estimates as promises.
Estimated effort: Usually one export setting.

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: 310 of 310 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

Agency: Seastreak Ferry
Finding: scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown
Feed evidence: 310 of 310 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible.
Why it matters: Even with accessible terminals, riders need to know the vessel itself can take them.
Requested change: 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.
Evidence: https://gtfsscorecard.org/agency/seastreak-ferry/?finding=scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown#finding-handoff

Produced by the GTFS Scorecard, an open-source data quality tool. A data-quality read to support the board conversation, not an official compliance determination. Live scorecard: https://gtfsscorecard.org/agency/seastreak-ferry/. Rubric v1.3, validator 8.0.1.