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A field survey can start with the busiest stops.", "owner": "Likely your team", "points": 25.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "201 of 201 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": 163, "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": "163 of 163 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." }, { "code": "scorecard_no_fare_data", "count": 1, "effort": "A small file for most flat-fare systems.", "fix": "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.", "owner": "", "points": 15.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "The feed contains no fare information.", "why": "Riders see 'fare unknown' in trip planners and can't budget their trip; visitors are most affected." } ], "name": "completeness", "score": 45.0, "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 not published.", "weight": 0.25 }, "correctness": { "details": { "distinct_codes": 6, "instances_by_severity": { "ERROR": 0, "INFO": 3, "WARNING": 187 }, "validator_version": "8.0.1" }, "findings": [ { "code": "mixed_case_recommended_field", "count": 164, "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": 8.0, "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_distance_exceeds_shape_distance_below_threshold", "count": 16, "effort": "Usually an export-tool fix, not hand editing.", "fix": "Re-generate shape_dist_traveled on export so stop and shape distances use the same units.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 6.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "On some trips the stop distances run a little past the end of the route line.", "why": "The stop and shape distance values don't quite line up, so any math that uses them can drift." }, { "code": "route_long_name_contains_short_name", "count": 5, "effort": "One field per flagged route.", "fix": "Drop the short name from route_long_name and keep the long name descriptive, like 'Downtown via 5th Ave'.", "owner": "", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some route long names repeat the route's short name inside them.", "why": "Apps show both names together, so riders see the number twice, like '5 5 Downtown'." }, { "code": "same_name_and_description_for_route", "count": 1, "effort": "Varies.", "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'same_name_and_description_for_route' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.", "owner": "", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Same name and description for route (flagged by the MobilityData validator).", "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects." }, { "code": "stop_without_stop_time", "count": 1, "effort": "A review pass in your scheduling software.", "fix": "Remove retired stops from the export, or add them back to the trips that should serve them.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 4.0, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "Some stops exist in the feed but no trip ever stops at them.", "why": "Riders may walk to a stop where no bus is scheduled to arrive." }, { "code": "unknown_file", "count": 3, "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." } ], "name": "correctness", "score": 73.5, "status": "measured", "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 6 kinds of issue across 190 instances (0 error, 187 warning, 3 informational).", "weight": 0.35 }, "freshness": { "details": { "days_until_expiry": 161, "effective_expiry_date": "2027-01-31", "feed_end_date": "2027-01-31", "feed_start_date": "2026-08-02", "feed_version": "Revert to Lexington 8/3/26", "has_feed_info": true, "last_service_date": "2027-01-31", "seasonal_boundary": false, "service_horizon_review_years": 10, "service_horizon_status": "within_review_threshold", "service_type": "fixed" }, "findings": [], "name": "freshness", "score": 100.0, "status": "measured", "summary": "Service data covers the next 161 days.", "weight": 0.2 }, "realtime": { "name": "realtime", "status": "not_yet_measured", "summary": "Not scored yet. Nothing here counts against the grade.", "weight": 0.2 } }, "confidence": { "feed_age_days": 0, "fetch_source": "origin", "level": "medium", "measured_categories": 3, "notes": [ "Realtime quality was not measured this run. It does not count against the grade.", "The feed was downloaded from the configured feed URL. Publisher ownership of that URL is not verified." ], "rt_windows": 0, "total_categories": 4 }, "conformance": { "awarded": false, "criteria": [ { "detail": "Passes validation with no errors.", "key": "valid", "met": true }, { "detail": "Service data covers the next 161 days.", "key": "current", "met": true }, { "detail": "States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each.", "key": "accessible", "met": false } ], "status": "not_yet", "summary": "One requirement remains for this feed to earn the conformance mark. States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each.", "version": 2 }, "feed": { "license_note": "No stated data license in the Mobility Database; verify before publishing.", "reachable": true, "sha256": "9b26a2b953f8e2f133bb145a062d0bff2b90ef592b2e80a28350b2906e43f178", "size_bytes": 98808, "source_provenance": "unverified", "static_url": "https://mylinktransit.org/gtfs" }, "fetch": { "final_url": "https://mylinktransit.org/gtfs", "max_attempts": 4, "reader_archive_profile": "raw-v1", "source": "origin", "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" }, "generated_at": "2026-08-23T00:00:00+00:00", "geo": { "bbox": [ -79.54893, 36.05641, -79.27003, 36.11903 ], "lat": 36.09533, "lon": -79.43976, "stop_count": 201 }, "mode_profile": { "ferry_only": false, "graded": false, "has_ferry": false, "is_multimodal": false, "measured": true, "modes": [ { "key": "bus", "label": "Bus", "route_count": 5, "trip_count": 163, "trip_share_pct": 100.0 } ], "primary_mode": "bus", "primary_mode_label": "Bus", "route_count": 5, "trip_count": 163 }, "ntd_id_alignment": { "detail": "Your feed's agency_id is 227; your National Transit Database ID is 40252. A feed that serves several agencies (a shared regional feed) can legitimately carry more than one agency_id. The values do not need to equal the five-digit NTD ID, so this difference is allowed and carries no score.", "feed_agency_ids": [ "227" ], "fix": "Confirm that P-50 crosswalks agency_id 227 to NTD ID 40252, and keep the feed value stable. Do not change it solely to make the two values equal.", "ntd_id": "40252", "status": "mismatch" }, "ntd_readiness": { "pillars": [ { "detail": "Published at a public URL.", "key": "published", "status": "ready" }, { "detail": "Passes validation with no errors.", "key": "valid", "status": "ready" }, { "detail": "Service data covers the next 161 days.", "key": "current", "status": "ready" }, { "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" } ], "status": "ready", "summary": "Published at a public URL, valid, current, and identified with agency_id: the four feed checks for RY2026 all hold here. Only your own D-10 and P-50 filings make that official; this is a heads-up, not a determination." }, "overall": { "grade": "C", "margin_to_lower_band": 1.2, "margin_to_next_band": 8.8, "score": 71.2 }, "recommendations": [ { "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 (1 Red).", "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." }, { "category": "accessibility", "code": "scorecard_stop_name_needs_tts", "count": 193, "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, "severity": "INFO", "what": "193 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"N. Ireland St @ Fisher Ave (outbound)\", \"Graham Hopedale Rd @ Martin St (outbound)\", \"Graham Hopedale Rd @ N. Church St (outbound)\", and more).", "why": "Riders who use a screen reader hear the raw name, so 'Main St & 2nd Ave' can come out as 'Main saint' or drop the ampersand." } ], "routability": { "boardable_stops": 201, "findings": [ { "code": "scorecard_orphan_stops", "count": 1, "effort": "A cleanup pass in your scheduling software.", "fix": "Remove stops no route serves, or add the trips that should call at them.", "owner": "Likely your export tool", "points": 0.0, "severity": "INFO", "what": "1 of 201 boardable stops are never served by any trip.", "why": "Riders see these stops in apps and on the map but can never catch anything there, which erodes trust in the data." } ], "orphan_stops": 1, "single_stop_trips": 0, "trips_total": 163 }, "route_map": { "drawn_route_count": 5, "has_shapes": true, "path": "data/artifacts/link-transit-1971/geometry.geojson", "route_count": 5, "routes": [ { "color": "FF0000", "color_name": "red", "has_shape": true, "id": "5867", "label": "1 Red", "long": "1 Red", "short": "1 Red", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "FF9900", "color_name": "orange", "has_shape": true, "id": "5881", "label": "2 Orange", "long": "2 Orange", "short": "2 Orange", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "0000FF", "color_name": "blue", "has_shape": true, "id": "5882", "label": "3 Blue", "long": "3 Blue", "short": "3 Blue", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "00FF00", "color_name": "green", "has_shape": true, "id": "5883", "label": "4 Green", "long": "4 Green", "short": "4 Green", "text_color": "000000", "type_label": "Bus" }, { "color": "6600FF", "color_name": "blue", "has_shape": true, "id": "5884", "label": "5 Purple", "long": "5 Purple", "short": "5 Purple", "text_color": "FFFFFF", "type_label": "Bus" } ], "stop_count": 201, "stop_points_capped": false }, "rubric_version": "1.3", "schema_version": "1.18", "scoring_profile": { "id": "gtfs-scorecard-1.3", "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" }, "shapes_readiness": { "detail": "All 163 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.", "status": "ready", "total_trips": 163, "trips_with_shape": 163 }, "snapshot_date": "2026-08-23", "top_fixes": [ { "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown", "count": 201, "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": 1, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "201 of 201 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": 163, "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": 2, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "163 of 163 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." }, { "code": "scorecard_no_fare_data", "count": 1, "effort": "A small file for most flat-fare systems.", "fix": "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.", "owner": "", "points": 15.0, "rank": 3, "severity": "WARNING", "what": "The feed contains no fare information.", "why": "Riders see 'fare unknown' in trip planners and can't budget their trip; visitors are most affected." } ], "validator_version": "8.0.1" }