Proposal: add SPECIAL_EVENT Cause to GTFS-realtime Service Alerts

[Cody Kraatz]

I've created an issue about this on Github after a discussion on MobilityData Slack: https://github.com/google/transit/issues/576

Thank you for taking a look and weighing in before this becomes a full-fledged Pull Request up for a vote.

Cody

CEO, SimplifyTransit

[Cody Kraatz]

Given the support for the Issue, I've created a Pull Request that's open for voting: https://github.com/google/transit/pull/577. Please check it out and weigh in.

Cody

[Cody Kraatz]

We've added testing information to this pull request: https://github.com/google/transit/pull/577

If you're a GTFS-ServiceAlerts Consumer, would you please test with the information on Github and below?

• GTFS-realtime Service Alerts endpoint in protobuf format including alerts with the proposed Cause SPECIAL_EVENT: https://cdn.simplifytransit.com/clallam/alerts/test/service-alerts.pb
• Compile this proto spec to test as a Consumer: https://github.com/ckraatz/transit/blob/6356bf5bc2ce15eca36e8e1ef97e34dce35dc7f1/gtfs-realtime/proto/gtfs-realtime.proto#L647
• Here's the GTFS for Clallam Transit, the agency that requested this new Cause, in case you need that for testing: https://irp.cdn-website.com/0eaf265e/files/uploaded/clallam_transit_gtfs.zip

Thank you,

Cody