Bing Maps Guides Public Transit

Bing Maps added transit guidance to its directions options, for every one of you Eco-friendly public transportation users out there!

So now, you can continue taking the bus, the subway or whatever local rail you want, without risking of getting in the middle of nowhere, because you can turn to Bing Maps and establish the best route in advance.

This feature is actually a very important one, as the interest in public transportation is continuously growing, and the networks are developing to accommodate more and more people.

In the United States alone, there are over 10.7 billion public transit passengers a year!

As this is the first release of Bing Maps transit directions, the service will cover only 11 cities, but no need to worry as more will come, and quite soon apparently!

For now, the new Bing Maps service will be very useful to you if you take public transportation in: Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New Jersey, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, and Vancouver.

As it can be seen on the screenshot, every route option features transit information on the side, so that users would easily compare route options depending on what transit they know and which one they prefer.

Bing made transit options available for bus, subway, local rail and light rail and information about the transit routing can be found on Bing's AJAX site.

Besides the transit novelties, Bing maps has also made major improvements on business details and information about landmarks.

You also can open movie house detail pages and see movie listings added to the Nearby panel, besides many details on hours of operation on these listings.

Still, the best way of understanding why Bing is excited about the new services is to explore Bing Maps yourself and try out all the new features, and to help you out, click here!