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Are there any thoughts for including bike routes or that ilk?

I live in the east bay (Berkeley, CA), and when I go to San Francisco, I often want to see what it might be to take BART + finish on a bike. This is opposed to finding a place to park. Just knowing what "bike routes" or bike lanes near to my stations is usually helpful.

This is also because BART + bike is usually a nice time vesus BART + Muni.

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hi tristan,

This is definitely something we're investigating. We haven't seen a ton of requests for it frankly, but we have an office full of bikers... So we get it and we will be looking in to it.

Yeah, I do believe this is one of those cases that might be hard to do right and keep the UI simple, to implement easily.

That won't stop me from requesting it. :)

Good luck!

Just wanted to say that I would love to see this as well. Actually though, what I'd love to do is be able to compare taking the bus and biking to 19th Street BART from my apartment near Lake Merritt (in Oakland). I'd also love a way to see what the optimal times for me to leave are, based on the schedule for the bus near my house, BART, and MUNI Metro. I want a way to see the optimal times to leave that will minimize my wait times at each location. I would also love a way to adjust the amount of buffer time for transfers in the App, because one of my complaints with all transit apps is that they make assumptions about how fast of a transfer I can make. I would even go so far as to say you should allow users to adjust this setting on a trip by trip basis, and allow them to bookmark trips/routes. Anyway, I have many more ideas. Let me know if you'd like to hear more of them!

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