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  "agency": {
    "id": "santa-cruz-metro-scmtd-2425",
    "name": "Santa Cruz Metro (SCMTD)",
    "subdivision_code": "US-CA",
    "subdivision_name": "California"
  },
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      "details": {
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          "measures": "presence_not_usability",
          "score": 37.2,
          "stops_marked_accessible_pct": 0.0,
          "stops_marked_not_accessible_pct": 0.0,
          "stops_stated_pct": 0.0,
          "trips_stated_pct": 99.1
        },
        "accessibility_measures": "presence_not_usability",
        "cemv": {
          "declared": false,
          "supported": false
        },
        "components": {
          "contact": 15.0,
          "fares": 15.0,
          "headsigns": 15.0,
          "stop_names": 15.0,
          "wheelchair_stops": 0.0,
          "wheelchair_trips": 14.9
        },
        "fare_free": false,
        "fares": {
          "applied": true,
          "has_leg_rules": true,
          "has_products": true,
          "has_transfer_rules": false,
          "model": "v2",
          "product_count": 44
        },
        "flex": {
          "booking_reachable": false,
          "booking_rule_count": 0,
          "has_booking_rules": false,
          "has_flex": false
        },
        "has_fares": true,
        "headsign_applicable_trips": 2283,
        "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": 754,
        "translations": {
          "feed_lang": "en",
          "has_translations": false,
          "languages": [],
          "translated_tables": [],
          "translation_count": 0
        },
        "trips": 2283,
        "wheelchair_accessible_pct": 99.1,
        "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": 754,
          "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": "754 of 754 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": 20,
          "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": 0.1,
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "what": "20 of 2283 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."
        }
      ],
      "name": "completeness",
      "score": 74.9,
      "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": 3,
        "instances_by_severity": {
          "ERROR": 0,
          "INFO": 3,
          "WARNING": 1
        },
        "validator_version": "8.0.1"
      },
      "findings": [
        {
          "code": "expired_calendar",
          "count": 1,
          "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": "unknown_column",
          "count": 2,
          "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": 0.5,
          "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": "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": 95.0,
      "status": "measured",
      "summary": "The MobilityData validator flagged 3 kinds of issue across 4 instances (0 error, 1 warning, 3 informational).",
      "weight": 0.35
    },
    "freshness": {
      "details": {
        "days_until_expiry": 39,
        "effective_expiry_date": "2026-09-09",
        "feed_end_date": "2026-09-09",
        "feed_start_date": "2026-06-18",
        "feed_version": "S1000116",
        "has_feed_info": true,
        "last_service_date": "2026-09-09",
        "seasonal_boundary": false,
        "service_horizon_review_years": 10,
        "service_horizon_status": "within_review_threshold",
        "service_type": "fixed"
      },
      "findings": [],
      "name": "freshness",
      "score": 65.0,
      "status": "measured",
      "summary": "Service data covers the next 39 days.",
      "weight": 0.2
    },
    "realtime": {
      "details": {
        "alerts_content": {
          "alerts": 1,
          "ended_over_30_days_ago": 0,
          "with_cause_and_effect": 1,
          "with_description": 1,
          "with_header_text": 1,
          "with_informed_entity": 1
        },
        "configured_kinds": [
          "trip_updates",
          "vehicle_positions",
          "service_alerts"
        ],
        "coverage_pct": 88.9,
        "covered_trips": 8,
        "drift": {
          "median_seconds": 0,
          "observations": 660,
          "on_time_share_pct": 81.2,
          "p90_abs_seconds": 327
        },
        "kinds_configured": 3,
        "kinds_reachable": 3,
        "reachable_kinds": [
          "trip_updates",
          "vehicle_positions",
          "service_alerts"
        ],
        "rt_freshness": "fresh",
        "samples": 9,
        "scheduled_trips_in_window": 9,
        "vehicles_checked": 34,
        "vehicles_on_route_pct": 97.1,
        "worst_lag_seconds": 7
      },
      "findings": [
        {
          "code": "scorecard_rt_trip_coverage",
          "count": 1,
          "effort": "A vendor data-mapping question.",
          "fix": "Check with your AVL vendor that every vehicle assignment flows into TripUpdates, including school-day and tripper runs.",
          "owner": "",
          "points": 3.9,
          "severity": "WARNING",
          "what": "1 of 9 trips scheduled during the sampling window had no live predictions.",
          "why": "Riders on those trips get schedule data dressed up as realtime. Caltrans expects every operating trip in TripUpdates."
        }
      ],
      "name": "realtime",
      "score": 95.7,
      "status": "measured",
      "summary": "Sampled 9 times: 3 of 3 configured feeds healthy; 88.9% of scheduled trips had live predictions; 97.1% of vehicles on their route; predictions ran a median of 0s behind schedule.",
      "weight": 0.2
    }
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  "confidence": {
    "feed_age_days": 0,
    "fetch_source": "origin",
    "level": "high",
    "measured_categories": 4,
    "notes": [
      "All four score categories were measured this run.",
      "Realtime was sampled in one bounded window of 9 snapshots.",
      "The feed was downloaded from the agency's own URL."
    ],
    "rt_windows": 1,
    "total_categories": 4
  },
  "conformance": {
    "awarded": false,
    "criteria": [
      {
        "detail": "Passes validation with no errors.",
        "key": "valid",
        "met": true
      },
      {
        "detail": "Service data covers the next 46 days.",
        "key": "current",
        "met": true
      },
      {
        "detail": "States wheelchair access on 0% of stops and 99% 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 99% of trips; the mark needs 90% of each."
  },
  "feed": {
    "license_note": "License: https://developer.scmetro.org/",
    "reachable": true,
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    "static_url": "https://developer.scmetro.org/gtfs.zip"
  },
  "fetch": {
    "final_url": "https://developer.scmetro.org/gtfs.zip",
    "max_attempts": 4,
    "reader_archive_profile": "raw-v1",
    "source": "origin",
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  },
  "generated_at": "2026-07-25T00:00:00+00:00",
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      36.90448,
      -121.73244,
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    "lon": -121.98871,
    "stop_count": 754
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    "ferry_only": false,
    "graded": false,
    "has_ferry": false,
    "is_multimodal": false,
    "measured": true,
    "modes": [
      {
        "key": "bus",
        "label": "Bus",
        "route_count": 28,
        "trip_count": 2283,
        "trip_share_pct": 100.0
      }
    ],
    "primary_mode": "bus",
    "primary_mode_label": "Bus",
    "route_count": 28,
    "trip_count": 2283
  },
  "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": [
      "1"
    ],
    "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 covers the next 46 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": "B",
    "margin_to_lower_band": 4.1,
    "margin_to_next_band": 5.9,
    "score": 84.1
  },
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    {
      "category": "fares",
      "code": "scorecard_fares_v2_no_fare_media",
      "count": 0,
      "effort": "A short file; one row per payment method you accept.",
      "fix": "Add fare_media.txt listing your accepted payment methods, including contactless EMV if riders can tap to pay.",
      "owner": "",
      "points": 0.0,
      "severity": "INFO",
      "what": "The feed publishes fare products but no fare_media.txt declaring how riders can pay.",
      "why": "Riders can't tell from the feed which payment methods you accept, such as a transit card, a mobile app, or tap-to-pay with a contactless bank card."
    },
    {
      "category": "accessibility",
      "code": "scorecard_stop_name_needs_tts",
      "count": 722,
      "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": "722 stop name(s) use abbreviations or symbols a screen reader may mispronounce, with no spoken form set (\"Barack Obama Blvd & W San Carlos\", \"Barack Obama Blvd & W San Carlos\", \"W Santa Clara & Delmas 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."
    }
  ],
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    "as_of": "2026-08-01",
    "feed_fetched_date": "2026-07-31",
    "kind": "freshness"
  },
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    "findings": [],
    "orphan_stops": 0,
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    "has_shapes": true,
    "path": "data/artifacts/santa-cruz-metro-scmtd-2425/geometry.geojson",
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        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
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        "label": "1",
        "long": "Soquel/Cabrillo/Airport",
        "short": "1",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "11",
        "label": "11",
        "long": "UCSC via West Gate - High",
        "short": "11",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "FFCE07",
        "color_name": "yellow",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "17",
        "label": "17",
        "long": "Highway 17 Express",
        "short": "17",
        "text_color": "003D6B",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "18",
        "label": "18",
        "long": "UCSC via Main Gate - Mission",
        "short": "18",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "18B",
        "label": "18B",
        "long": "Base of UCSC via Mission",
        "short": "18B",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "19",
        "label": "19",
        "long": "UCSC via West Gate - Bay",
        "short": "19",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "19B",
        "label": "19B",
        "long": "Base of UCSC via Bay",
        "short": "19B",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "2",
        "label": "2",
        "long": "Capitola/Cabrillo/Main",
        "short": "2",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "20",
        "label": "20",
        "long": "UCSC via Main Gate - Delaware",
        "short": "20",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "2N",
        "label": "2N",
        "long": "Capitola/Cabrillo/Main",
        "short": "2N",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "34",
        "label": "34",
        "long": "Scotts Valley Drive/Emeline",
        "short": "34",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "35",
        "label": "35",
        "long": "Highway 9/Scotts Valley",
        "short": "35",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "35B",
        "label": "35B",
        "long": "Scotts Valley/Big Basin",
        "short": "35B",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "35X",
        "label": "35X",
        "long": "Santa Cruz/Boulder Creek Express",
        "short": "35X",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "3A",
        "label": "3A",
        "long": "Capitola Mall/Live Oak",
        "short": "3A",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "3B",
        "label": "3B",
        "long": "Capitola Mall/Live Oak",
        "short": "3B",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "4",
        "label": "4",
        "long": "River/Harvey West",
        "short": "4",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "6C6E70",
        "color_name": "gray",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "40",
        "label": "40",
        "long": "Highway 1 - Davenport",
        "short": "40",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "6C6E70",
        "color_name": "gray",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "41",
        "label": "41",
        "long": "Empire Grade - Bonny Doon",
        "short": "41",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "4W",
        "label": "4W",
        "long": "River/Harvey West",
        "short": "4W",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "55",
        "label": "55",
        "long": "Cabrillo/Rio Del Mar/La Selva",
        "short": "55",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "72",
        "label": "72",
        "long": "Green Valley - Pinto Lake",
        "short": "72",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "72W",
        "label": "72W",
        "long": "Green Valley - Corralitos",
        "short": "72W",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "73",
        "label": "73",
        "long": "Soquel/Freedom/Cabrillo",
        "short": "73",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "74S",
        "label": "74S",
        "long": "PVHS/Watsonville Hospital",
        "short": "74S",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "75",
        "label": "75",
        "long": "Green Valley - Wheelock",
        "short": "75",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "78",
        "label": "78",
        "long": "Ohlone/Watsonville Hospital",
        "short": "78",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      },
      {
        "color": "003D6B",
        "color_name": "green",
        "has_shape": true,
        "id": "79",
        "label": "79",
        "long": "East Lake",
        "short": "79",
        "text_color": "FFFFFF",
        "type_label": "Bus"
      }
    ],
    "stop_count": 754,
    "stop_points_capped": false
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  "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 2283 trips have a shape in shapes.txt.",
    "status": "ready",
    "total_trips": 2283,
    "trips_with_shape": 2283
  },
  "snapshot_date": "2026-08-01",
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    {
      "code": "scorecard_wheelchair_boarding_unknown",
      "count": 754,
      "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": "754 of 754 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": "expired_calendar",
      "count": 1,
      "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": 2,
      "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": "scorecard_rt_trip_coverage",
      "count": 1,
      "effort": "A vendor data-mapping question.",
      "fix": "Check with your AVL vendor that every vehicle assignment flows into TripUpdates, including school-day and tripper runs.",
      "owner": "",
      "points": 3.9,
      "rank": 3,
      "severity": "WARNING",
      "what": "1 of 9 trips scheduled during the sampling window had no live predictions.",
      "why": "Riders on those trips get schedule data dressed up as realtime. Caltrans expects every operating trip in TripUpdates."
    }
  ],
  "validator_version": "8.0.1"
}