Google Transit for Mumbai

Travelling in a city like Mumbai is a really tiresome thing especially in the peak hours; the journey is nothing short of an adventure. You have to struggle through trains with people packed in like sardines. Well that can’t be changed but things are set to become a bit more comfortable for the average Mumbaikar with the introduction of Google Transit. The service was enabled from March 2011.

What Google Transit has done is, completely removed the need for you to synchronize your timings manually with the Local Railways and BEST bus transport system. All you need to do is just submit your starting location and destination location along with your exact time of departure...that’s it.

Once you have done that you will be shown all the possible ways by which you can reach the desired location.

1. Go to www.google.com.
   
   
2. Click on ‘Maps’ Tab.
   
   
3. Clicking on maps opens Google Maps.
   
   
4. Click on the ’Get directions’ tab.
   
   
5. You will see 3 textbox’s on the left sidebar of the application.
   
   
6. Types in the starting location in the first box while the destination location in the second box.
   
   
7. On clicking the ‘GET DIRECTION’ button you will get the direction from the source to the destination this is not with respect to the public transit but with respect to a car drive.
   
   
8. To get direction for public transit click on the ‘By public transit’ button.
   
   
9. On clicking the button you will see three scrollbox’s.The scroll box have to be filled with the intended time to leave.
   
   
10. Upon clicking the ‘GET DIRECTION’ button again you will get various options to travel via public transport to the destination location.