After traveling internationally in the summer of 2005, Bibiana McHugh, an IT Manager at Portland’s TriMet transit agency, was frustrated that she couldn’t access transit information on a mapping program like Mapquest and certainly couldn’t plan a trip by transit with the same ease as a driving trip. When she returned stateside, she sent inquiries to Mapquest, Yahoo!, and Google, asking each if they had plans to incorporate transit data into their mapping services and if TriMet could partner in the endeavor. Of the three, only Google replied.