Unicode error running Count Trips at Stops

[AlexHanson]

Hi,

I am trying to run the Count Trips at Stops tool within BetterBusBuffers (v. 0.13.0.2) but keep getting a unicode error. I have used the tool successfully before but started getting this error within the last week. I have already successfully pre-processed the GTFS data into a SQL database. Error message below. I'm running ArcGIS 10.4.1 for Desktop with a basic license. 

[ALEXBARTZOKAS]

Thank you, Melinda, for your quick response!

Due to this error, I deleted all the records with null lat/lon values in the stops file.

So, I'm sharing the modified stops.txt here.

[MelindaMorang]

Hi Alex.  The problem turned out to be a bug in the script where it was unnecessarily trying to convert the stop_id to a string, and for your particular data, it was throwing that Unicode decode error because it was trying to convert the string to ASCII.

I have fixed the problem.  You can download a fresh version of the toolbox here: http://arcg.is/0yr9fr 

Or, you can just download this one file and replace your local copy with the downloaded version: public-transit-tools/BBB_CountTripsAtStops.py at master · Esri/public-transit-tools · GitHub 

In case anyone is reading this thread in the future, Alex's problem was unrelated to the original question posted here, even though they had similar error messages.

[ALEXBARTZOKAS]

Thank you, Melinda, for your support and your work! Now the tool works fine!