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Barcelona bus route removed from map apps to tackle tourist overcrowding

5 pointsby adrianhonabout 1 year ago

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netsharcabout 1 year ago
This is incredible, in that it breaks the &quot;you should be able to find all relevant information online&quot; paradigm. One would assume if Google has info about the publicly accessible bus network, it would have info about ALL the buses, but now we know it doesn&#x27;t.<p>I remember being in Lisbon when there were transport worker strikes. Somehow the buses&#x2F;trams I wanted still came, maybe less regularly (I didn&#x27;t know since I&#x27;m not a local). But googling for a &quot;current&quot; route would give me obscure instructions like &quot;Walk many kms to the train station&quot; (trains were still running). But if I changed my departure date to several months in the future on Google Maps it would tell me the regular (strike-free) route and to go around the corner and wait for bus number xyz. I wonder if the Barcelonans could just say the bus 116 is on strike until 2099 or similar...