Ranked shortlist · 10 of 13 public transit
Best public transit in San Diego
The 10 most notable public transit in San Diego, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Old Town Transit Center
4005 Taylor St
21 m from Old Town Transit Center, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.278, percentile 100 of 13
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2
Kearny Mesa Transit Center
Clairemont Mesa Blvd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.267, percentile 91.67 of 13
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3
MTS Rapid - East Palomar Transit Station
400 E Palomar St
listed by Foursquare Open Source Places and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.071, percentile 83.33 of 13
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4
GOGO Charters San Diego
10251 Vista Sorrento Pkwy Ste 280
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.010, percentile 75 of 13
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5
12th & Imperial Transit Center
1255 Imperial Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.933, percentile 66.67 of 13
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6
Metropolitan Transit System
1255 Imperial Ave 1000
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.903, percentile 58.33 of 13
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7
ARIA Transportation
8148 Genesee Ave
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.807, percentile 50 of 13
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8
The Transit Store
1255 Imperial Ave Ste 100a
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.807, percentile 41.67 of 13
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9
Zoo Bus Stop
2920 Zoo Dr
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.741, percentile 33.33 of 13
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10
Tecolote Road Station
1364 Morena Blvd
listed by Foursquare Open Source Places and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.92 · rank score 1.532, percentile 25 of 13
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).