Grand River Transit

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Now the question is whether Google Maps will update their transit directions on the same day as GRT, or if that will lead to frustrations until it updates.

GRT publishes data using Google Transit Feed Specification, which includes dates in which different services are active. I just downloaded the current batch and it looks to include information through to the end of April. Google states they prefer weekly updates, so there's plenty of lead time to publish updated information with the new routes including active dates, once that's all announced.

I use Transit regularly, and it does a good job tracking regular seasonal schedule changes and this is basically the same thing, so it's probable that the information will be available to us appropriately.

(Edit to add: By "us" I mean the users of the apps that consume the data produced by GRT)