The formatting on the guide rough draft for the 2016 Edition of the Ohio Transit Hiker's Resource has been undone. And the text for transit amenities that connect to the Brunswick Transit Alternative, Akron Metropolitan, Greater Cleveland, Stark Area and Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authorities has been entered at the bottom of the guide, but not bookmarked and linked yet. I decided that for smartphone functionality, that the mentioning of their connecting services would be too much for their screens to handle in some instances. This is because if the following were to be written like this:
Quick Glossary
AIR - Passenger Air Services
GLI - Greyhound, or an affiliate
(AAA) - OTHR agency code
CVSR - Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad that operates in the Cuyahoga Valley NP
AMT - Amtrak
LTA - Local Transit Agency
/s - Serviced, has in-person ticket sales
FR's - Fixed Routes, typical city buses that run a regular route on the same schedule
DIS - Disabled Only
GP - General Public
DAR - Dial-a-Ride/ Curb-to-Curb/ Shared Ride/ Demand Responsive type local transit service. These require advanced reservations.
CW: T LTA (AM) DIS DAR CCW: T LTA (PARTA) GP DAR
The in the guide rough draft's present condition, under what I just mentioned, the rest of it would look like the following:
T AIR /s - CAK - Akron - Canton Reg. T GLI (BAR) - Ravenna (Rootstown)
T GLI /s - Robert K. Plaff TC - Akron
T GLI (BAR) /s - Robert K. Plaff TC - Akron
T GLI (GO) /s - Robert K. Plaff TC - Akron
T CVSR - Various locations from Akron Northside Station
T LTA (SARTA) FR's
T AIR /s - CAK - Akron - Canton Reg.
T GLI (BAR) /s - Canton Cornerstone TC - Canton
T GLI (GO) /s - Canton Cornerstone TC - Canton
T CVSR - Lincoln Station - Canton
T AMT - ALC - Alliance
T LTA (CARTS) GP DAR - from Alliance
T LTA (gcRTA) FR's
T LTA (PARTA) FR's
T GLI (BAR) - Ravenna (Rootstown)
T LTA (gcRTA) FR's
T AIR /s - CLE - Cleveland Hopkins Int'l
T GLI /s - Cleveland
T GLI (BAR) /s - Cleveland
T GLI (GO) /s - Cleveland
T AMT - CLE - Cleveland Lakefront Station
T CVSR - Rockside, or Brecksville Stations
T LTA (LT) FR's
T LTA (SARTA) FR's
T AIR /s - CAK - Akron - Canton Reg.
T GLI (BAR) /s - Canton Cornerstone TC - Canton
T GLI (GO) /s - Canton Cornerstone TC - Canton
T CVSR - Lincoln Station - Canton
T AMT - ALC - Alliance
T LTA (CARTS) GP DAR - from Alliance
T LTA (BrTA) FR's
T LTA (MED) GP DAR
And that's just the information for one particular resource point. This would be a problem to display if all of this had to be written for the CCW side (and at times, it has). I believe that when the smartphone user tries to read that, they'll double tap on their screen to zoom in, which will re-wrap the text and make it better to read. But my indents will force some of it on to the next line and begin at the right of the screen.
Local transit in Cleveland - Akron - Canton areas is the most interconnected in the State of Ohio. OTHR's guide allows the transit hiker to know what the maximum number of options are with every conceivable connection. This can be an advantage when they break a piece of gear that's difficult to replace. But with other transit hikers, they have an array of options as to where to start and end their hikes from regional transit. Those amenities in this area are within transit range of six Buckeye Trail sections and one maintaining chapter of the North Country Trail. That's about 335 miles of distance trail.
Getting back to the guide rough draft... by writing out the five local agencies and their connections once, I can create a link to them through out the document that will make it shorter and easier to read on a smartphone.
Other than that, my whiteboards had tasks written on them that I had to do in order to clear them. So, I tended to some personal matters as well and that just about sums up my day.
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