Community Transit

Help: Planning a trip

You can use the Trip Planner to plan your bus or train travels in Snohomish, King and Pierce counties. The Trip Planner includes schedule information for Community Transit, Everett Transit, King County Metro, Sound Transit (including Sounder trains and Link light rail), Pierce Transit, Seattle Monorail and the South Lake Union Streetcar as well as Washington State Ferry connections. Island Transit and Skagit Transit information is not included in the regional Trip Planner.

In addition to planning out a full itinerary for bus or train travel between locations, the Trip Planner has three other features:

• Nearest Stop: Use this feature to find all the stops in an area, and to get more information on each stop such as what routes serve it, where it is located on the street and if there's a shelter.
• Next Bus: Lists the next four trips on all routes that serve stops in a selected area. Based on schedule information; not real-time.
• Service Nearby: Use this feature to find what bus routes serve an area and where they go. Then you can link to the route schedule, plan a trip or find the next bus. All Trip Planner features use location information entered in the same ways as described below.

If what you entered is not immediately recognized, the Trip Planner will offer you a list of options. You can choose one of the options to continue or select the "Revise Original Entries" link to return to the main trip planner form.

Helpful Tips

The trip planner recognizes four types of locations: Addresses, Intersections, Landmarks and Community Transit Bus Stop IDs. The following tips will help you enter in locations that the trip planner can easily recognize as one of these valid location types.

Addresses

• Do NOT type in the City, State or Zip
• You do not need to type in "Ave","St",etc. The trip planner will automatically bring up options for you choose from.
  • CORRECT: 7100 Hardeson
  • INCORRECT: 7100 Harderson St. Everett, Wa.
• Some streets and addresses are unknown to the Trip Planner. You may need to enter another nearby location, such as an intersection or a landmark.
• If you are unfamilliar with the area, you can simply type in the name of the city you are going to and list of landmarks will be automatically generated for you.

Intersections

• Type the "&" symbol or the word "and" between two street names to show an intersection.
• You don't need to type in the city. The Trip Planner shows the possible city names as options if needed.
  • CORRECT: Evergreen and Casino - or - Evergreen & Casino
  • INCORRECT: Evergreen and Casino Everett
• You don't need to type in the directional designations for streets, but if a direction name is part of a street name, you should include it.
  • CORRECT: 3rd & Main
  • INCORRECT: 3rd S & S Main
  • CORRECT: 34th & West Viewmont
  • INCORRECT: 34th W & West Viewmont Way W.
• Some streets and addresses are unknown to the Trip Planner. You may need to enter another nearby location, such as an intersection or a landmark.
• If you are unfamilliar with the area, you can simply type in the name of the city you are going to and list of landmarks will be automatically generated for you.

Landmarks

The Trip Planner recognizes many landmarks. Using a landmark as a location can be a very efficient way of planning a trip as many bus routes have been designed to cater to these locations. Our landmarks include the following landmark types:

• Government Sites
• Major Commercial Sites
• Transportation Facilities. Click here for Swift station list.
• Schools & Colleges
• Sports & Leisure
• Medical Facilities
• Transit Centers
• Park and Ride Lots
• Metro Tunnel Stations

Stop IDs

Community Transit's trip planner also provides the capability to plan a trip from one of our bus stops. Simply enter in the four-digit numeral printed in large type located on the post of our bus stop signs located at each stop.

Other helpful tips

If you are having trouble planning a specific trip, try adjusting the distance of how far you are willing to walk and your preferences with regards to fastest trip, fewest transfers and minimal walking.