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  "agency": {
    "id": "merced-county-transit-the-bus-3117",
    "name": "Merced County Transit (The Bus)",
    "subdivision_code": "US-CA",
    "subdivision_name": "California"
  },
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    "completeness": {
      "details": {
        "accessibility": {
          "measures": "presence_not_usability",
          "score": 0.0,
          "stops_marked_accessible_pct": 0.0,
          "stops_marked_not_accessible_pct": 0.0,
          "stops_stated_pct": 0.0,
          "trips_stated_pct": 0.0
        },
        "accessibility_measures": "presence_not_usability",
        "cemv": {
          "declared": false,
          "supported": false
        },
        "components": {
          "contact": 15.0,
          "fares": 0.0,
          "headsigns": 15.0,
          "stop_names": 15.0,
          "wheelchair_stops": 0.0,
          "wheelchair_trips": 0.0
        },
        "fare_free": false,
        "fares": {
          "applied": false,
          "has_leg_rules": false,
          "has_products": false,
          "has_transfer_rules": false,
          "model": "none",
          "product_count": 0
        },
        "flex": {
          "booking_reachable": false,
          "booking_rule_count": 0,
          "has_booking_rules": false,
          "has_flex": false
        },
        "has_fares": false,
        "headsign_applicable_trips": 555,
        "headsign_loop_exempt_trips": 0,
        "headsign_pct": 100.0,
        "headsign_scored_pct": 100.0,
        "mixed_case_stop_name_pct": 100.0,
        "pathways": {
          "has_entrances": false,
          "has_levels": false,
          "has_pathways": false,
          "has_stations": false,
          "has_step_free": false,
          "pathway_count": 0
        },
        "stops": 361,
        "translations": {
          "feed_lang": "en-US",
          "has_translations": false,
          "languages": [],
          "translated_tables": [],
          "translation_count": 0
        },
        "trips": 555,
        "wheelchair_accessible_pct": 0.0,
        "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": 361,
          "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": "361 of 361 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": 555,
          "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": "555 of 555 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": 8,
        "instances_by_severity": {
          "ERROR": 0,
          "INFO": 7,
          "WARNING": 61
        },
        "validator_version": "8.0.1"
      },
      "findings": [
        {
          "code": "trip_distance_exceeds_shape_distance_below_threshold",
          "count": 34,
          "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": 15,
          "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": "leading_or_trailing_whitespaces",
          "count": 8,
          "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": 6.0,
          "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": "mixed_case_recommended_field",
          "count": 2,
          "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": "missing_feed_info_date",
          "count": 1,
          "effort": "Two fields, likely set once in your export settings.",
          "fix": "Fill in feed_start_date and feed_end_date in feed_info.txt.",
          "owner": "Likely your export tool",
          "points": 4.0,
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "what": "feed_info.txt does not state when this feed starts and ends.",
          "why": "Without stated dates, apps can't warn anyone before your data goes stale; it just disappears one day."
        },
        {
          "code": "missing_recommended_field",
          "count": 1,
          "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": "service_extends_far_in_the_future",
          "count": 4,
          "effort": "Varies.",
          "fix": "Review the rule documentation for 'service_extends_far_in_the_future' at https://gtfs-validator.mobilitydata.org/rules.html and check the flagged rows in your feed.",
          "owner": "",
          "points": 0.5,
          "severity": "INFO",
          "what": "Service extends far in the future (flagged by the MobilityData validator).",
          "why": "See the linked rule for what this affects."
        },
        {
          "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": 69.0,
      "status": "measured",
      "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 8 kinds of issue across 68 instances (0 error, 61 warning, 7 informational).",
      "weight": 0.35
    },
    "freshness": {
      "details": {
        "days_until_expiry": 26815,
        "effective_expiry_date": "2099-12-31",
        "feed_end_date": null,
        "feed_start_date": "2026-01-26",
        "feed_version": "PASAT 8 Route Update",
        "has_feed_info": true,
        "last_service_date": "2099-12-31",
        "seasonal_boundary": false,
        "service_horizon_review_years": 10,
        "service_horizon_status": "unusually_distant",
        "service_type": "fixed"
      },
      "findings": [
        {
          "code": "scorecard_missing_feed_info_dates",
          "count": 1,
          "effort": "Two fields, set once in export settings.",
          "fix": "Add feed_info.txt with feed_start_date and feed_end_date to your export.",
          "owner": "Likely your export tool",
          "points": 15.0,
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "what": "feed_info.txt is missing its start/end dates",
          "why": "Apps and this scorecard can't warn anyone before the feed goes stale without stated validity dates."
        }
      ],
      "name": "freshness",
      "score": 85.0,
      "status": "measured",
      "summary": "Service is published through 2099-12-31, an unusually distant end date. It may be intentional, but confirm it before treating the feed as maintained.",
      "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 agency's own URL."
    ],
    "rt_windows": 0,
    "total_categories": 4
  },
  "conformance": {
    "awarded": false,
    "criteria": [
      {
        "detail": "Passes validation with no errors.",
        "key": "valid",
        "met": true
      },
      {
        "detail": "The published window is current, but its service end date is unusually distant; confirm that date is intentional.",
        "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": "This feed is close to the conformance mark. States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 0% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each."
  },
  "feed": {
    "license_note": "No stated data license in the Mobility Database; verify before publishing.",
    "reachable": true,
    "sha256": "8fb80f090fd37a7cbb767ad41614c99c09c865c46b909394cb50e1bfdba2c020",
    "size_bytes": 240563,
    "static_url": "https://thebuslive.com/gtfs"
  },
  "fetch": {
    "final_url": "https://thebuslive.com/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": "2026-08-01T00:00:00+00:00",
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      -120.89472,
      37.0487,
      -120.248,
      37.52178
    ],
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    "lon": -120.49036,
    "stop_count": 361
  },
  "mode_profile": {
    "ferry_only": false,
    "graded": false,
    "has_ferry": false,
    "is_multimodal": false,
    "measured": true,
    "modes": [
      {
        "key": "bus",
        "label": "Bus",
        "route_count": 15,
        "trip_count": 555,
        "trip_share_pct": 100.0
      }
    ],
    "primary_mode": "bus",
    "primary_mode_label": "Bus",
    "route_count": 15,
    "trip_count": 555
  },
  "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": [
      "42"
    ],
    "status": "unknown"
  },
  "ntd_readiness": {
    "pillars": [
      {
        "detail": "Published at a public URL.",
        "key": "published",
        "status": "ready"
      },
      {
        "detail": "Passes validation with no errors.",
        "key": "valid",
        "status": "ready"
      },
      {
        "detail": "The published window is current, but its service end date is unusually distant; confirm that date is intentional.",
        "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": "D",
    "margin_to_lower_band": 5.5,
    "margin_to_next_band": 4.5,
    "score": 65.5
  },
  "recommendations": [
    {
      "category": "accessibility",
      "code": "scorecard_route_color_low_contrast",
      "count": 11,
      "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": "11 route badge(s) pair a color and text color below the WCAG 4.5:1 contrast bar (UC, LB, M1, M2, M3, and more).",
      "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": 312,
      "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": "312 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"Park & Ride @ Bellevue Ave\", \"K St @ 23rd (northbound)\", \"M & A Market (westbound)\", 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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    "findings": [],
    "orphan_stops": 0,
    "single_stop_trips": 0,
    "trips_total": 555
  },
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    "has_shapes": true,
    "path": "data/artifacts/merced-county-transit-the-bus-3117/geometry.geojson",
    "route_count": 15,
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        "color": "BA6606",
        "color_name": "orange",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "1225",
        "label": "UC",
        "long": "UC-UC Merced",
        "short": "UC",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "0820FF",
        "color_name": "blue",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "18",
        "label": "L",
        "long": "L - Livingston Commuter",
        "short": "L",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "12A13D",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "19",
        "label": "LB",
        "long": "LB - Los Banos Commuter",
        "short": "LB",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "C97E0E",
        "color_name": "orange",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "20",
        "label": "M1",
        "long": "M1 - Merced West",
        "short": "M1",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "A67726",
        "color_name": "brown",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "21",
        "label": "M2",
        "long": "M2 - R Street Route",
        "short": "M2",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "CFB359",
        "color_name": "yellow",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "22",
        "label": "M3",
        "long": "M3 - M Street Route",
        "short": "M3",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "827033",
        "color_name": "brown",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "23",
        "label": "M4",
        "long": "M4 - G Street Route",
        "short": "M4",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "D17F36",
        "color_name": "orange",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "24",
        "label": "M5",
        "long": "M5 - Merced South-East",
        "short": "M5",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "FFA742",
        "color_name": "yellow",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "25",
        "label": "M6",
        "long": "M6 - Olive Loops",
        "short": "M6",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "827033",
        "color_name": "brown",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "5889",
        "label": "M7",
        "long": "M7 - South G Street Route",
        "short": "M7",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "B50920",
        "color_name": "red",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "953",
        "label": "A2",
        "long": "A2 - Winton Way",
        "short": "A2",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "FF0818",
        "color_name": "red",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "957",
        "label": "A1",
        "long": "A1 - Atwater Loop",
        "short": "A1",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "6AB8CC",
        "color_name": "gray",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "958",
        "label": "P",
        "long": "P - Planada Commuter",
        "short": "P",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "A7B1DB",
        "color_name": "white",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "972",
        "label": "T",
        "long": "T - Turlock Commuter",
        "short": "T",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "80ADAA",
        "color_name": "gray",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "973",
        "label": "W1",
        "long": "W1 - Winton Commuter",
        "short": "W1",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      }
    ],
    "stop_count": 361,
    "stop_points_capped": false
  },
  "rubric_version": "1.3",
  "schema_version": "1.17",
  "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 555 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.",
    "status": "ready",
    "total_trips": 555,
    "trips_with_shape": 555
  },
  "snapshot_date": "2026-08-01",
  "top_fixes": [
    {
      "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown",
      "count": 361,
      "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": "361 of 361 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": 555,
      "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": "555 of 555 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_missing_feed_info_dates",
      "count": 1,
      "effort": "Two fields, set once in export settings.",
      "fix": "Add feed_info.txt with feed_start_date and feed_end_date to your export.",
      "owner": "Likely your export tool",
      "points": 15.0,
      "rank": 3,
      "severity": "WARNING",
      "what": "feed_info.txt is missing its start/end dates",
      "why": "Apps and this scorecard can't warn anyone before the feed goes stale without stated validity dates."
    }
  ],
  "validator_version": "8.0.1"
}