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News that connects you, metro’s updated web-based trip planner offers better searching, real-time departure predictions, plus a whole lot more.

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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Trip planning apps are here to help you find the best route.

Use Metro’s Trip Planner to plan your transit trips around the Puget Sound region. Metro’s Puget Sound Trip Planner is available on mobile web and in the app stores, integrating trip planning and real-time estimated departures. Visit metro.kingcounty.gov/trip-planner/mobile-apps/ for more information.

With real-time arrivals, trip planning from start to end, and routes and schedules, Sound Transit will help you get where you need to go by ST Express bus, Sounder train, and Link light rail. Plan your trip at www.soundtransit.org/tripplanner .

One Bus Away is here to provide you real-time arrival information for your transit.

With schedule and real-time transit information, you’ll know exactly when your bus or train will arrive with One Bus Away. You can find real-time information for a  number of transit agencies and arrival information for every bus stop.

One Bus Away is available from the Apple iTunes and Google Play stores. Check out  onebusaway.org  for more information about the app.

Once you’ve planned your trip, pay for your mobile ticket using TransitGO.

Transit GO Ticket is a  mobile app  that lets you quickly buy bus, rail and water taxi tickets on your phone and get where you need to go without having to pay cash.

When you’re ready to board, simply activate the ticket and board transit. On the bus, you’ll show your mobile device screen to the driver. On the Water Taxi you’ll show it on the fare officer before boarding. On the streetcar, light rail and Sounder (and Metro RapidRide if you board through the rear doors) you’ll show it to a fare enforcement officer.

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