Train transfer issues

[Jeremy512]

I can't get the site to work if I specify this itinerary, one leg via train and one via bus: Input: five days a week, Circular Quay to Bondi Junction. then Add transfer, choose any of the bus options Get error, "Sorry, couldn't work out a sensible route between those two stations. Try a bus instead?"

I guess this is because the site needs to calculate a transfer at Town Hall or Central for this route? But this shouldn't matter for the fares really.

[jpatokal]

What's actually happening under the hood is that it's asking Google for public transit directions between the two train stations, so it can figure out the distance. But because there's a direct bus from CQ to Bondi Jct, that's what Google suggests, so no train directions for you -- and that's why the error suggests a bus instead.

This isn't really fixable with the current implementation, although I have considered scraping Sydney Trains to get distances/fares for all the ~40k possible station-to-station combos and just dumping them in a giant table.

[medoix]

Might have to, are you logging how many people get the "Sorry, couldn't work out a sensible route between those two stations." i put in just train from St Marys to Central and get the same error. I cannot get trains to work from any station out west to the city.

[medoix]

Actually Blacktown is the furthest out i think that works.