Google Maps Directions in XML public transit

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I have a google maps directions link shown in XML:

http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/xml?origin=111%20Davisville%20Avenue,Toronto,ON&destination=469%20King%20Street%20West,%20Toronto,%20ON&sensor=false&dirflg=r

Even though it has the drection flag dirflg=r at the end to swich to public transit directions, its still showing the driving directions. Is there any fix to this?

Thanks in advance. I searched around but couldn't find anything that answers exactly this.

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The Google Maps API do not currently let you query for public transit directions. See code.google.com/p/gmaps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=713#c76 for the reason from Google. – Jeow Li Huan
Is there anyway to fetch this data then? Maybe using Bing or MapQuest? Or perhaps using Google's json object api instead of xml? – C0D3
Did you find a way to query the Google Maps for transit data and use it in Android and iOS mobile applications? – Alex Bitek
Unfortunately Google doesn't let you query for transit data. But I found this: nextbus.com/homepage . They also provide an xml web service. This might also help: stackoverflow.com/questions/8735938/… – C0D3

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You can't get a direct web feed but you can get a json file.

use the output=json property/value at the end of your url.

eg: https://maps.google.com/?saddr=546+6th+Avenue,+New+York,+NY+10011+(Sixth+Avenue,+New+York)&daddr=W+103rd+St,+New+York,+NY+&dirflg=r&output=json