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    "name": "Metropolitan Transit Authority of Black Hawk County",
    "subdivision_code": "US-IA",
    "subdivision_name": "Iowa"
  },
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        "accessibility": {
          "measures": "presence_not_usability",
          "score": 100.0,
          "stops_marked_accessible_pct": 56.2,
          "stops_marked_not_accessible_pct": 43.8,
          "stops_stated_pct": 100.0,
          "trips_stated_pct": 100.0
        },
        "accessibility_measures": "presence_not_usability",
        "cemv": {
          "declared": false,
          "supported": false
        },
        "components": {
          "contact": 7.5,
          "fares": 15.0,
          "headsigns": 0.0,
          "stop_names": 15.0,
          "wheelchair_stops": 25.0,
          "wheelchair_trips": 15.0
        },
        "fare_free": false,
        "fares": {
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          "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": 510,
        "headsign_loop_exempt_trips": 0,
        "headsign_pct": 0.0,
        "headsign_scored_pct": 0.0,
        "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
        },
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        "translations": {
          "feed_lang": "en",
          "has_translations": false,
          "languages": [],
          "translated_tables": [],
          "translation_count": 0
        },
        "trips": 510,
        "wheelchair_accessible_pct": 100.0,
        "wheelchair_boarding_pct": 100.0,
        "wheelchair_marked_accessible_pct": 56.2,
        "wheelchair_marked_not_accessible_pct": 43.8
      },
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        {
          "code": "scorecard_missing_headsigns",
          "count": 510,
          "effort": "Usually one value per route pattern in your scheduling source.",
          "fix": "Add the destination, direction, or 'via' label riders actually see to trip_headsign. Do not copy the route name. If the label changes during the trip, use stop_headsign.",
          "owner": "",
          "points": 15.0,
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "what": "510 of 510 trips lack rider-facing destination or direction text.",
          "why": "When a route has multiple directions or patterns, the route name alone may not tell riders which service is coming."
        },
        {
          "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": 77.5,
      "status": "measured",
      "summary": "100% of stops state wheelchair accessibility (56% marked accessible, 44% 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": 7,
        "instances_by_severity": {
          "ERROR": 0,
          "INFO": 8,
          "WARNING": 8
        },
        "validator_version": "8.0.1"
      },
      "findings": [
        {
          "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": "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": "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."
        },
        {
          "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_window_outside_feed_period",
          "count": 5,
          "effort": "Two fields in feed_info.txt, or one export setting.",
          "fix": "Widen feed_start_date and feed_end_date to cover all service dates, or fix the dates that fall outside.",
          "owner": "Likely your export tool",
          "points": 0.5,
          "severity": "INFO",
          "what": "Some service dates fall outside the date window set in feed_info.txt.",
          "why": "feed_info.txt should span every day your service runs, so apps know when the data applies."
        },
        {
          "code": "service_extends_far_in_the_future",
          "count": 2,
          "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": "big_gap_in_service",
          "count": 1,
          "effort": "A review of your calendar dates.",
          "fix": "Check whether the gap is real, like a seasonal break; if not, add the missing dates to the calendar.",
          "owner": "",
          "points": 0.5,
          "severity": "INFO",
          "what": "The feed has a stretch of two weeks or more with no service running.",
          "why": "A long gap can mean dates were left out of the calendar. Apps then show no trips on those days."
        }
      ],
      "name": "correctness",
      "score": 82.5,
      "status": "measured",
      "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 7 kinds of issue across 16 instances (0 error, 8 warning, 8 informational).",
      "weight": 0.35
    },
    "freshness": {
      "details": {
        "days_until_expiry": -2405,
        "effective_expiry_date": "2019-12-31",
        "feed_end_date": "2019-12-31",
        "feed_start_date": "2019-01-01",
        "feed_version": "20190722",
        "has_feed_info": true,
        "last_service_date": "2050-12-31",
        "seasonal_boundary": false,
        "service_horizon_review_years": 10,
        "service_horizon_status": "within_review_threshold",
        "service_type": "fixed"
      },
      "findings": [
        {
          "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 2405 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 2405 day(s) ago. Trip planners have likely already dropped this feed.",
      "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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    "feed_age_days": 0,
    "fetch_source": "mirror",
    "level": "provisional",
    "measured_categories": 3,
    "notes": [
      "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."
    ],
    "rt_windows": 0,
    "total_categories": 4
  },
  "conformance": {
    "awarded": false,
    "criteria": [
      {
        "detail": "Passes validation with no errors.",
        "key": "valid",
        "met": true
      },
      {
        "detail": "Service data expired 2405 days ago.",
        "key": "current",
        "met": false
      },
      {
        "detail": "States wheelchair access on 100% of stops and 100% of trips.",
        "key": "accessible",
        "met": true
      }
    ],
    "status": "not_yet",
    "summary": "This feed is close to the conformance mark. Service data expired 2405 days ago."
  },
  "feed": {
    "license_note": "No stated data license in the Mobility Database; verify before publishing.",
    "reachable": true,
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    "size_bytes": 52018,
    "static_url": "http://mettransit.org/sites/default/files/MET_Transit_GTFS.zip"
  },
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    "origin_error": "HTTPError",
    "reader_archive_profile": "raw-v1",
    "source": "mirror",
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  },
  "generated_at": "2026-08-01T00:00:00+00:00",
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      42.42938,
      -92.29803,
      42.53908
    ],
    "lat": 42.49829,
    "lon": -92.35726,
    "stop_count": 89
  },
  "mode_profile": {
    "ferry_only": false,
    "graded": false,
    "has_ferry": false,
    "is_multimodal": false,
    "measured": true,
    "modes": [
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        "key": "bus",
        "label": "Bus",
        "route_count": 13,
        "trip_count": 510,
        "trip_share_pct": 100.0
      }
    ],
    "primary_mode": "bus",
    "primary_mode_label": "Bus",
    "route_count": 13,
    "trip_count": 510
  },
  "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": [
      "MET"
    ],
    "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": "Service data expired 2405 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date.",
        "key": "current",
        "status": "not_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": "not_ready",
    "summary": "Resolve this before you certify on the D-10. Service data expired 2405 days ago, so FTA would find the link out of date."
  },
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    "grade": "D",
    "margin_to_lower_band": 0.3,
    "margin_to_next_band": 9.7,
    "score": 60.3
  },
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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 (2).",
      "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": 64,
      "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": "64 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"W 4th St and Locust St\", \"Fletcher Ave and Campbell Ave\", \"Goodwill on Falls Ave\", 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": {
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    "findings": [],
    "orphan_stops": 0,
    "single_stop_trips": 0,
    "trips_total": 510
  },
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    "has_shapes": true,
    "path": "data/artifacts/metropolitan-transit-authority-of-black-hawk-county/geometry.geojson",
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        "color": "00C5FF",
        "color_name": "teal",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "1",
        "label": "1",
        "long": "West - BLUE",
        "short": "1",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "0000FF",
        "color_name": "blue",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "10",
        "label": "10",
        "long": "Hawkeye Community College",
        "short": "10",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "CD6666",
        "color_name": "pink",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "11",
        "label": "11",
        "long": "UNI Panther Shuttle",
        "short": "11",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "005CE6",
        "color_name": "blue",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "12",
        "label": "12",
        "long": "UNI Weekend Safe Ride",
        "short": "12",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "FF0000",
        "color_name": "red",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "2",
        "label": "2",
        "long": "West - RED",
        "short": "2",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
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        "color": "55FF00",
        "color_name": "yellow",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "3",
        "label": "3",
        "long": "East - GREEN",
        "short": "3",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "FFC90A",
        "color_name": "yellow",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "4",
        "label": "4",
        "long": "East - ORANGE",
        "short": "4",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
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        "color": "FFEABE",
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        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "5L",
        "label": "5L",
        "long": "Crossroads/La Porte Road - TAN",
        "short": "5L",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
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        "color": "FFEABE",
        "color_name": "white",
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        "id": "5W11",
        "label": "5W11",
        "long": "Crossroads/West 11th Street - TAN",
        "short": "5W11",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
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        "color_name": "yellow",
        "has_shape": true,
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        "long": "Cedar Falls-UNI - YELLOW",
        "short": "6",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
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        "color": "FFFF00",
        "color_name": "yellow",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "7",
        "label": "7",
        "long": "Cedar Falls-Rainbow - YELLOW",
        "short": "7",
        "text_color": "000000",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
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        "color": "686868",
        "color_name": "gray",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "8",
        "label": "8",
        "long": "West Loop - GREY",
        "short": "8",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
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        "color": "A900E6",
        "color_name": "purple",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "9",
        "label": "9",
        "long": "Cedar Falls Loop - PURPLE",
        "short": "9",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
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    "stop_count": 89,
    "stop_points_capped": false
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  "rubric_version": "1.3",
  "schema_version": "1.17",
  "scoring_profile": {
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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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    "detail": "All 510 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.",
    "status": "ready",
    "total_trips": 510,
    "trips_with_shape": 510
  },
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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 2405 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_missing_headsigns",
      "count": 510,
      "effort": "Usually one value per route pattern in your scheduling source.",
      "fix": "Add the destination, direction, or 'via' label riders actually see to trip_headsign. Do not copy the route name. If the label changes during the trip, use stop_headsign.",
      "owner": "",
      "points": 15.0,
      "rank": 2,
      "severity": "WARNING",
      "what": "510 of 510 trips lack rider-facing destination or direction text.",
      "why": "When a route has multiple directions or patterns, the route name alone may not tell riders which service is coming."
    },
    {
      "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,
      "rank": 3,
      "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."
    }
  ],
  "validator_version": "8.0.1"
}