1/ In 2005, @avichal visited NYC and kept getting lost on the subway. Late to dinner and frustrated, he wondered: If Google Maps can route me anywhere by car, why can’t it get me on the right train? So on his flight home, he wrote the product spec for Google Transit. 🧵

@avichal For more on the origin story of Google Transit (as well as forthcoming video content on this and how it was designed to integrate into Google Maps), check out my substack: