Front Seat, the Seattle-based team that brought us WalkScore, has recently released a new website where visitors can find public transit applications in their city, and see a list of which transit agencies make their data publicily available to software developers and which agencies do not.

CityGoRound.org launched today, and we here at Goose Networks are pleased to see that the website highlights the need for open transit data, and recognizes and thanks those agencies that already provide their data to third party developers.

“We are calling on transit agencies nationwide to open their data and follow the lead of the Open Government Directive issued this week by the White House,” said Mike Mathieu, Founder and Chairman of Front Seat. “City-Go-Round’s transit apps are a concrete example of how open data can improve citizens’ lives on a daily basis.”

There are 748 transit agencies in the U.S., 84 of which provide their schedule data to software developers. The largest three transit agencies with no open data are: MTA New York City Transit, New Jersey Transit Corporation, and Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company in New York. Visitors to City-Go-Round can add their name to a request for open public transit data in their city.