Comments on: Google Maps mobile gets updated in celebration of $5 gas

Google Maps mobile gets hand-y update.

[Pank2008]

with the skyrocketing gas prices, perhaps browsing google maps will be the only travelling we do in the future

[Josh.Lowensohn]

That's incredibly depressing. Street View is usually sunny though, I'll give it that.

[videography]

The Google Map public transport service is indeed impressive. It will become a lot more so when they become more intermodal with regard to bicycle. For example the Walk range of an average person on a regular commute is a few miles per segment. On a bicycle that range triples or quadruples. The key issue is for transport and municipal authorities across the country to wake up an hear this . . . "Bicycles [rentals and parking] are to train depots, as Rent-a-cars and parking are to airports".

Bob Kiger aka "Cruiser Bob"
www.cruiserbob.com