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    "id": "manatee-county-area-transit-2258",
    "name": "Manatee County Area Transit",
    "subdivision_code": "US-FL",
    "subdivision_name": "Florida"
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          "measures": "presence_not_usability",
          "score": 37.5,
          "stops_marked_accessible_pct": 0.0,
          "stops_marked_not_accessible_pct": 0.0,
          "stops_stated_pct": 0.0,
          "trips_stated_pct": 100.0
        },
        "accessibility_measures": "presence_not_usability",
        "cemv": {
          "declared": false,
          "supported": false
        },
        "components": {
          "contact": 7.5,
          "fares": 15.0,
          "headsigns": 15.0,
          "stop_names": 7.4,
          "wheelchair_stops": 0.0,
          "wheelchair_trips": 15.0
        },
        "fare_free": false,
        "fares": {
          "applied": true,
          "has_leg_rules": false,
          "has_products": false,
          "has_transfer_rules": false,
          "model": "legacy",
          "product_count": 0
        },
        "flex": {
          "booking_reachable": false,
          "booking_rule_count": 0,
          "has_booking_rules": false,
          "has_flex": false
        },
        "has_fares": true,
        "headsign_applicable_trips": 1226,
        "headsign_loop_exempt_trips": 0,
        "headsign_pct": 100.0,
        "headsign_scored_pct": 100.0,
        "mixed_case_stop_name_pct": 49.0,
        "pathways": {
          "has_entrances": false,
          "has_levels": false,
          "has_pathways": false,
          "has_stations": false,
          "has_step_free": false,
          "pathway_count": 0
        },
        "stops": 928,
        "translations": {
          "feed_lang": "en",
          "has_translations": false,
          "languages": [],
          "translated_tables": [],
          "translation_count": 0
        },
        "trips": 1226,
        "wheelchair_accessible_pct": 100.0,
        "wheelchair_boarding_pct": 0.0,
        "wheelchair_marked_accessible_pct": 0.0,
        "wheelchair_marked_not_accessible_pct": 0.0
      },
      "findings": [
        {
          "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown",
          "count": 928,
          "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": "928 of 928 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_stop_names_all_caps",
          "count": 473,
          "effort": "Often a bulk fix in your scheduling software.",
          "fix": "Rename stops to mixed case where the language has letter case (for example, 'Central Station').",
          "owner": "Likely your export tool",
          "points": 7.6,
          "severity": "INFO",
          "what": "About 473 stop names are written in ALL CAPS.",
          "why": "Mixed-case names are easier to read in apps and are read more naturally by screen readers."
        },
        {
          "code": "scorecard_no_feed_contact",
          "count": 1,
          "effort": "One field.",
          "fix": "Add feed_contact_email to feed_info.txt.",
          "owner": "",
          "points": 7.5,
          "severity": "INFO",
          "what": "feed_info.txt has no technical contact (feed_contact_email or feed_contact_url).",
          "why": "Trip-planning apps and regional data coordinators have nobody to email when they spot a problem with your feed, so problems linger."
        }
      ],
      "name": "completeness",
      "score": 59.9,
      "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
    },
    "correctness": {
      "details": {
        "distinct_codes": 5,
        "instances_by_severity": {
          "ERROR": 0,
          "INFO": 0,
          "WARNING": 2362
        },
        "validator_version": "8.0.1"
      },
      "findings": [
        {
          "code": "mixed_case_recommended_field",
          "count": 2171,
          "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": "stop_too_far_from_shape_using_user_distance",
          "count": 171,
          "effort": "Usually an export-tool fix, not hand editing.",
          "fix": "Check the flagged stops' shape_dist_traveled against the route shape, and re-generate it on export if they disagree.",
          "owner": "Likely your export tool",
          "points": 8.0,
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "what": "Some stops sit far from the route line, going by the feed's own distance values.",
          "why": "Trip planners may draw the route down the wrong streets or point riders to the wrong corner."
        },
        {
          "code": "route_long_name_contains_short_name",
          "count": 16,
          "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": 6.0,
          "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": "stop_too_far_from_shape",
          "count": 3,
          "effort": "A few minutes per flagged stop.",
          "fix": "Check the flagged stops' coordinates and the route shape in your scheduling software; re-snap whichever is misplaced.",
          "owner": "Likely your export tool",
          "points": 4.0,
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "what": "Some stops sit far from the route line they belong to.",
          "why": "Trip planners may draw the bus route through the wrong streets or point riders to the wrong corner."
        },
        {
          "code": "missing_feed_contact_email_and_url",
          "count": 1,
          "effort": "One field, set once in export settings.",
          "fix": "Add feed_contact_email or feed_contact_url to feed_info.txt.",
          "owner": "Likely your export tool",
          "points": 4.0,
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "what": "feed_info.txt lists no contact email and no contact URL.",
          "why": "Without a contact, apps like Google Maps can't reach you when they find a problem in the feed."
        }
      ],
      "name": "correctness",
      "score": 70.0,
      "status": "measured",
      "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 5 kinds of issue across 2362 instances (0 error, 2362 warning, 0 informational).",
      "weight": 0.35
    },
    "freshness": {
      "details": {
        "days_until_expiry": 285,
        "effective_expiry_date": "2027-06-04",
        "feed_end_date": "2027-06-04",
        "feed_start_date": "2026-08-15",
        "feed_version": "20260814",
        "has_feed_info": true,
        "last_service_date": "2027-06-04",
        "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 285 days.",
      "weight": 0.2
    },
    "realtime": {
      "name": "realtime",
      "status": "not_yet_measured",
      "summary": "Not scored yet. Nothing here counts against the grade.",
      "weight": 0.2
    }
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  "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 285 days.",
        "key": "current",
        "met": true
      },
      {
        "detail": "States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 100% 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 100% 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,
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    "size_bytes": 595495,
    "source_provenance": "unverified",
    "static_url": "https://realtimemcat.availtec.com/InfoPoint/GTFS-Zip.ashx"
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  "fetch": {
    "final_url": "https://realtimemcat.availtec.com/InfoPoint/GTFS-Zip.ashx",
    "max_attempts": 4,
    "reader_archive_profile": "raw-v1",
    "source": "origin",
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  "generated_at": "2026-08-21T00:00:00+00:00",
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      27.33758,
      -82.45182,
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    "lon": -82.57207,
    "stop_count": 928
  },
  "mode_profile": {
    "ferry_only": false,
    "graded": false,
    "has_ferry": false,
    "is_multimodal": false,
    "measured": true,
    "modes": [
      {
        "key": "bus",
        "label": "Bus",
        "route_count": 16,
        "trip_count": 1226,
        "trip_share_pct": 100.0
      }
    ],
    "primary_mode": "bus",
    "primary_mode_label": "Bus",
    "route_count": 16,
    "trip_count": 1226
  },
  "ntd_id_alignment": {
    "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.",
    "feed_agency_ids": [
      "140"
    ],
    "status": "unknown"
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  "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 287 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": 4.3,
    "margin_to_next_band": 5.7,
    "score": 74.3
  },
  "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 (304).",
      "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": 917,
      "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": "917 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"29TH ST E/60TH AVE E\", \"60TH AVE E/32ND ST E\", \"60TH AVE E/35TH LN E\", 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."
    }
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    "as_of": "2026-08-23",
    "feed_fetched_date": "2026-08-22",
    "kind": "freshness"
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    "findings": [],
    "orphan_stops": 0,
    "single_stop_trips": 0,
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    "has_shapes": true,
    "path": "data/artifacts/manatee-county-area-transit-2258/geometry.geojson",
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        "color": "F7A48A",
        "color_name": "pink",
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        "id": "1",
        "label": "1",
        "long": "1  PALMETTO/ELLENTON",
        "short": "1",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "C388C2",
        "color_name": "pink",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "12",
        "label": "12",
        "long": "12  SR 70 / 53RD AVE E",
        "short": "12",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "A8927D",
        "color_name": "gray",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "13",
        "label": "13",
        "long": "13 DOWNTOWN/PALMETTO",
        "short": "13",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
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        "color": "F573C0",
        "color_name": "pink",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "16",
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        "long": "16  15TH STREET E/TALLEVAST",
        "short": "16",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
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        "has_shape": true,
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        "long": "2  EAST BRADENTON - SAMOSET",
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        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
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        "color_name": "white",
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        "short": "201",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
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        "color": "8886A9",
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        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
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        "type_label": "Bus"
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        "short": "304",
        "text_color": "000000",
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        "short": "4",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
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        "short": "5",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
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        "color": "C0E096",
        "color_name": "white",
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        "id": "6",
        "label": "6",
        "long": "6  CORTEZ ROAD",
        "short": "6",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
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        "short": "75",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "6882C0",
        "color_name": "gray",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "8",
        "label": "8",
        "long": "8  ONECO",
        "short": "8",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
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        "color": "DC838C",
        "color_name": "pink",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "9",
        "label": "9",
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        "short": "9",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
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        "color": "73D3F6",
        "color_name": "white",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "99",
        "label": "99",
        "long": "99  BRADENTON/SARASOTA",
        "short": "99",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
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    "stop_points_capped": false
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  "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 1226 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.",
    "status": "ready",
    "total_trips": 1226,
    "trips_with_shape": 1226
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    {
      "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown",
      "count": 928,
      "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": "928 of 928 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": "mixed_case_recommended_field",
      "count": 2171,
      "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,
      "rank": 2,
      "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": "stop_too_far_from_shape_using_user_distance",
      "count": 171,
      "effort": "Usually an export-tool fix, not hand editing.",
      "fix": "Check the flagged stops' shape_dist_traveled against the route shape, and re-generate it on export if they disagree.",
      "owner": "Likely your export tool",
      "points": 8.0,
      "rank": 3,
      "severity": "WARNING",
      "what": "Some stops sit far from the route line, going by the feed's own distance values.",
      "why": "Trip planners may draw the route down the wrong streets or point riders to the wrong corner."
    }
  ],
  "validator_version": "8.0.1"
}