I’m not a transit user anymore but I can see the value in this, especially in Fredericton. Visitors, new students and new residents especially will find it easier to reach their destination.

Fredericton Transit has joined with Google to offer a mapping service that allows transit riders to not only map out their routes, but to get walking route suggestions and projected durations of their trips at different times in the day.

It would come in handy for anyone who has tried to make sense of some of the transit routes where if you need to go to one side of the North Side to another area of the North Side by crossing to the SOUTH side of the river.

 
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Fredericton Transit

NB has made some good progress with the transit systems and the use of the web as Moncton had wifi implemented on their transit not that long ago.

That Fredericton, NB (fred-e-zone) was the first city in Canada to have free Wifi? That Moncton, NB is the first city in Canada to have free Wifi on public transportation? That the cool Facebook app Expressions came out of NB & NS? That you can manage your sports team with YourTeamOnline from Saint John’s Evolving Solutions?

This is only the beginnings of some of what will be touched on here at meshEAST. I’m hoping that others will want to contribute as well. I’d like to see a growing community of Atlantic Canada digital media enthusiasts.