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The new next departure and schedule lookup screen

King County Metro continues making your transit experience better and easier with the launch of its improved web-based Puget Sound Trip Planner . The new site includes upgraded accessibility features and a responsive design for mobile users, along with a list of other notable enhancements. The new web-based Trip Planner is live and ready for use now.

For years, Trip Planner has been an important planning tool used by transit riders throughout the Puget Sound region. This new release has a robust search function with enhanced recognition of both locations and landmarks. Going to your local community center but don’t know the address? Just type in the location’s name and let Trip Planner find the right route for you! The search feature makes planning your trip much simpler.

Another great feature built into the Trip Planner provides real-time departure prediction information for stop locations, along with online timetables for your favorite bus routes. Want to know where your bus is? You can view the route details while the integrated tracker provides a real-time map view of bus locations from the last time they pinged—so you know how far your bus is from your stop.

The new Trip Planner also gives you the ability to set your trip planning options. If you want your plan to contain more detail, such as choosing different modes of travel, maximum walking distance or future travel times or dates, just click the gear icon next to the destination field and a new window will open. From there, select your preferred options and click the “done” button in the bottom right-hand corner. This is a great tool to get the travel plan that is right for you.

If you just want to see options for the near future, when you might only need to adjust time departure or arrival in 15-minute increments or see your options for tomorrow, the quick change options appears after you search. You can quickly change the Travel Mode, Time, and Date fields with arrows that move forward and backward for those fields. This is really useful when you’re planning to leave relatively soon.

Other upgrades to Trip Planner include easy access to transit alerts for your stops and routes, the ability to find the bus stops closest to you, and an option that lists all the direct transit trips between two points within a specific time window.

Please note, the Puget Sound Trip Planner apps for Android and iOS have not been upgraded with all the same features.

As you use the new Trip Planner , please share any feedback about your experience via our feedback form, found by clicking here . We value your user suggestions as we continue improving your transit planning tools.

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Hmm the trip planner no longer allows me to select the time? Is that by design?

Why did you change the PC version? Now it’s horrible broken. I complained about it and was ignored. Please have some human beings test it and update so it works.

This new trip planner only works if you have Google Chrome. Which I do not and cannot download to my computer. Of course since a resident of South King County my concerns are not important.

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Go ahead, relax. Someone else is driving! Our area’s extensive transit network makes traveling car-free a snap. Bellevue is served by King County Metro and Sound Transit buses. Sounder Commuter Rail and Link Light Rail connect to nearby transit hubs. And East Link light rail through Bellevue will launch in 2024.

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FindARide is a service of Hopelink that helps people with special mobility needs get around. Type information about your origin and destination, together with your accessibility needs, and the tool will display a list of transportation services. Details displayed include whether the service allows you to simply "show up and ride" or you need to reserve the service ahead of time.

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Puget Sound Trip Planner

Try the new and improved Puget Sound Trip Planner, it now includes upgraded accessibility features and a responsive design for mobile users, along with a list of other notable enhancements. Plan your transit trips around the Puget Sound region; the tool gives you step-by-step instructions for using transit to get from your trip’s start location to its end. The app version combines regional trip planning with real-time arrivals, and provides route and schedule information with map views. Includes bus, train, light rail, streetcar, ferry, water taxi and the Monorail.

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• Seniors, people with disabilities and those on Medicare are eligible for Regional Reduced Fare Permits .
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• The Puget Sound Trip Planner (for transit trips) allows you to specify how far you’d like to walk and filter routes based on accessibility.
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• Access Transportation is a paratransit service that takes you anywhere a Metro bus, Seattle streetcar or Sound Transit light rail goes, at the time it is scheduled.
• The  Transportation Resources Line (a service of  Hopelink Mobility Management ) can provide you with one-on-one support in finding unique transportation options that fit your needs. The Mobility line is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. If you leave a voicemail, Hopelink will return your call within two business days. To learn more, please email  [email protected] ; call 425-943-6760, ext. 2; or complete Hopelink's  online form .
• FindARide , a service of Hopelink , helps people with special mobility needs get around King County. Type information about your origin and destination, together with your accessibility needs, and the tool will display a list of transportation services.

Learn more by viewing the accessibility pages for King County Metro and Sound Transit , as well as the  King County Mobility Coalition  web page.