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    "subdivision_name": "North Carolina"
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          "supported": false
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          "has_products": false,
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        "headsign_scored_pct": 100.0,
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          "has_levels": false,
          "has_pathways": false,
          "has_stations": false,
          "has_step_free": false,
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        },
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          "has_translations": false,
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          "translation_count": 0
        },
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        "wheelchair_boarding_pct": 0.0,
        "wheelchair_marked_accessible_pct": 0.0,
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      },
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          "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown",
          "count": 981,
          "effort": "A column in stops.txt; your scheduling software likely has it.",
          "fix": "Set wheelchair_boarding to 1 (accessible) or 2 (not accessible) for every stop. A field survey can start with the busiest stops.",
          "owner": "Likely your team",
          "points": 25.0,
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "what": "981 of 981 stops don't say whether a wheelchair user can board there.",
          "why": "Riders who use wheelchairs can't plan a trip when accessibility is marked 'unknown'; apps show no information at all."
        },
        {
          "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown",
          "count": 1856,
          "effort": "A default or per-trip field in your export.",
          "fix": "Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip. If every vehicle is accessible, this may be one default; otherwise use the value for each trip.",
          "owner": "Likely your export tool",
          "points": 15.0,
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "what": "1856 of 1856 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible.",
          "why": "Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the bus itself can take them."
        }
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      "score": 60.0,
      "status": "measured",
      "summary": "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.",
      "weight": 0.25
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      },
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        {
          "code": "equal_shape_distance_same_coordinates",
          "count": 1382,
          "effort": "Usually one export setting.",
          "fix": "Turn on shape cleanup in your export tool, or drop the repeated points from shapes.txt.",
          "owner": "Likely your export tool",
          "points": 8.0,
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "what": "Some route lines list the same point twice in a row.",
          "why": "Repeated points don't hurt riders, but they can skew distance math and hint at a shaky export."
        },
        {
          "code": "expired_calendar",
          "count": 5,
          "effort": "One setting in most export tools.",
          "fix": "Remove past service periods the next time you export the feed.",
          "owner": "Likely your export tool",
          "points": 4.0,
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "what": "Some service calendars in the feed have already ended.",
          "why": "Expired calendars are dead weight and can hide real schedule problems from your staff and vendors."
        },
        {
          "code": "leading_or_trailing_whitespaces",
          "count": 5,
          "effort": "Usually one export setting.",
          "fix": "Trim leading and trailing spaces on export. The scorecard's auto-fixed copy already does this.",
          "owner": "Likely your export tool",
          "points": 4.0,
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "what": "Some values have extra spaces at the start or end.",
          "why": "A stray space can break a match, so a stop or route may fail to link across files."
        },
        {
          "code": "missing_recommended_field",
          "count": 2,
          "effort": "A field at a time; not urgent.",
          "fix": "Review the flagged fields and fill in the ones your riders would use.",
          "owner": "",
          "points": 4.0,
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "what": "Some files leave out fields that GTFS asks for but does not require.",
          "why": "Recommended fields like agency_phone or stop descriptions make the feed more useful to riders and trip planners."
        },
        {
          "code": "feed_expiration_date7_days",
          "count": 1,
          "effort": "Usually a re-export from your scheduling software.",
          "fix": "Export and publish an updated GTFS feed that covers at least the next 30 days of service.",
          "owner": "Likely your export tool",
          "points": 4.0,
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "what": "This feed's service calendar runs out within the next 7 days.",
          "why": "When the calendar ends, Google Maps and other trip planners drop your agency entirely. Riders see no service at all."
        },
        {
          "code": "mixed_case_recommended_field",
          "count": 1,
          "effort": "Often a bulk fix in your scheduling software.",
          "fix": "Use mixed case for stop names and headsigns (e.g. 'Main St & 2nd Ave', not 'MAIN ST & 2ND AVE').",
          "owner": "Likely your export tool",
          "points": 4.0,
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "what": "Some rider-facing names are in ALL CAPS or all lowercase.",
          "why": "ALL-CAPS stop and headsign names are harder to read in apps and are read awkwardly by screen readers."
        },
        {
          "code": "trip_coverage_not_active_for_next7_days",
          "count": 1,
          "effort": "One setting in most export tools.",
          "fix": "Trim past service periods the next time you export.",
          "owner": "Likely your export tool",
          "points": 4.0,
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "what": "Many of the feed's trips don't run at all in the next 7 days.",
          "why": "It usually means old service periods are still in the export, making the feed bigger and harder to check."
        },
        {
          "code": "trip_headsign_matches_intermediate_stop",
          "count": 36,
          "effort": "Usually a bulk edit in your scheduling software.",
          "fix": "Set trip_headsign to the trip's last stop or its overall destination.",
          "owner": "Likely your export tool",
          "points": 0.8,
          "severity": "INFO",
          "what": "Some trip headsigns name a stop along the way, not the final destination.",
          "why": "The sign should tell riders where the bus ends up, so a midpoint name can send them the wrong way."
        },
        {
          "code": "unknown_column",
          "count": 16,
          "effort": "A quick look at the flagged files.",
          "fix": "Check the flagged column names for misspellings of standard GTFS fields; remove them if they are vendor extras.",
          "owner": "",
          "points": 0.8,
          "severity": "INFO",
          "what": "Some files contain columns that are not part of the GTFS spec.",
          "why": "Harmless to riders, but apps ignore these columns and they can hide typos in real column names."
        },
        {
          "code": "unknown_file",
          "count": 1,
          "effort": "A quick look at the flagged file.",
          "fix": "Check the flagged file name for a typo of a standard GTFS file. Remove it if it is a vendor extra.",
          "owner": "",
          "points": 0.5,
          "severity": "INFO",
          "what": "The feed includes a file that is not part of the GTFS spec.",
          "why": "Apps ignore files they don't know, and a stray file can hide a misspelled standard file name."
        }
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      "status": "measured",
      "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 10 kinds of issue across 1450 instances (0 error, 1397 warning, 53 informational).",
      "weight": 0.35
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        "feed_end_date": "2025-02-28",
        "feed_start_date": "2024-03-04",
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        "has_feed_info": true,
        "last_service_date": "2025-02-28",
        "seasonal_boundary": false,
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        "service_horizon_status": "within_review_threshold",
        "service_type": "fixed"
      },
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        {
          "code": "scorecard_feed_expired",
          "count": 1,
          "effort": "Usually one export setting; export on a schedule so it never lapses again.",
          "fix": "Re-export the feed with a calendar that reaches further out, and set feed_info feed_end_date past your next service change.",
          "owner": "Likely your export tool",
          "points": 100.0,
          "severity": "ERROR",
          "what": "Service data ended 519 day(s) ago.",
          "why": "When the calendar runs out, trip planners stop showing this agency even though the buses are still running. Riders are told the service does not exist."
        }
      ],
      "name": "freshness",
      "score": 0.0,
      "status": "measured",
      "summary": "Service data ended 519 day(s) ago. Trip planners have likely already dropped this feed.",
      "weight": 0.2
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      "name": "realtime",
      "status": "not_yet_measured",
      "summary": "Not scored yet. Nothing here counts against the grade.",
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      "Realtime quality was not measured this run. It does not count against the grade.",
      "The agency's own feed URL was unreachable, so the Mobility Database's hosted mirror copy was scored instead."
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        "detail": "Service data expired 519 days ago.",
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        "met": false
      },
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        "met": false
      }
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  },
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    "detail": "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.",
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        "status": "ready"
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      {
        "detail": "Passes validation with no errors.",
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        "status": "ready"
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      {
        "detail": "Service data expired 519 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date.",
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        "status": "not_ready"
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      {
        "detail": "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.",
        "key": "agency_id",
        "status": "ready"
      }
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      "category": "accessibility",
      "code": "scorecard_route_color_low_contrast",
      "count": 1,
      "effort": "A per-route color setting in your scheduling software.",
      "fix": "Adjust route_color or route_text_color so each pair clears 4.5:1. Often switching the text between black and white is enough.",
      "owner": "Likely your export tool",
      "points": 0.0,
      "severity": "WARNING",
      "what": "1 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (15).",
      "why": "Low-contrast route badges are hard to read for riders with low vision and wash out on a phone screen in sunlight at the stop."
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    {
      "category": "accessibility",
      "code": "scorecard_stop_name_needs_tts",
      "count": 926,
      "effort": "A short text field per affected stop; start with the busiest.",
      "fix": "Add tts_stop_name with the spoken form, e.g. 'Main Street and Second Avenue', for the affected stops.",
      "owner": "",
      "points": 0.0,
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      "what": "926 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"1100 Elm St\", \"1124 Church St\", \"1409 Yanceyville ST\", and more).",
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        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
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        "label": "17",
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        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
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        "type_label": "Bus"
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        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
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        "short": "6",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
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        "color": "752D00",
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        "long": "Friendly Avenue",
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        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
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        "color": "FF03C4",
        "color_name": "pink",
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        "label": "8",
        "long": "Battleground Avenue",
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        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "941347",
        "color_name": "red",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "9",
        "label": "9",
        "long": "West Market Street",
        "short": "9",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
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    "stop_points_capped": false
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  "rubric_version": "1.3",
  "schema_version": "1.17",
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    "provenance": "GTFS Scorecard's project-authored weights, deductions, thresholds, grade bands, and fix ranking, informed by the California Transit Data Guidelines and the MobilityData gtfs-validator. It is not a worldwide standard or a compliance determination.",
    "rubric_version": "1.3"
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    {
      "code": "scorecard_feed_expired",
      "count": 1,
      "effort": "Usually one export setting; export on a schedule so it never lapses again.",
      "fix": "Re-export the feed with a calendar that reaches further out, and set feed_info feed_end_date past your next service change.",
      "owner": "Likely your export tool",
      "points": 100.0,
      "rank": 1,
      "severity": "ERROR",
      "what": "Service data ended 519 day(s) ago.",
      "why": "When the calendar runs out, trip planners stop showing this agency even though the buses are still running. Riders are told the service does not exist."
    },
    {
      "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown",
      "count": 981,
      "effort": "A column in stops.txt; your scheduling software likely has it.",
      "fix": "Set wheelchair_boarding to 1 (accessible) or 2 (not accessible) for every stop. A field survey can start with the busiest stops.",
      "owner": "Likely your team",
      "points": 25.0,
      "rank": 2,
      "severity": "WARNING",
      "what": "981 of 981 stops don't say whether a wheelchair user can board there.",
      "why": "Riders who use wheelchairs can't plan a trip when accessibility is marked 'unknown'; apps show no information at all."
    },
    {
      "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_accessible_unknown",
      "count": 1856,
      "effort": "A default or per-trip field in your export.",
      "fix": "Set wheelchair_accessible on every trip. If every vehicle is accessible, this may be one default; otherwise use the value for each trip.",
      "owner": "Likely your export tool",
      "points": 15.0,
      "rank": 3,
      "severity": "WARNING",
      "what": "1856 of 1856 trips don't say whether the vehicle is wheelchair accessible.",
      "why": "Even with accessible stops, riders need to know the bus itself can take them."
    }
  ],
  "validator_version": "8.0.1"
}
