Customer Information Office offered by King County Metro Transit
Provides callers with information about bus schedules, routes, fares and trip planning. Receives and reviews recommendations, comments, complaints and suggestions about Metro services. Maintains a lost-and-found facility.
Provides callers with information about bus schedules, routes, fares and trip planning.
Receives and reviews recommendations, comments, complaints and suggestions about Metro services.
Maintains a lost-and-found facility for Metro transit riders. Handles lost items such as wallets, phones, purses, glasses, prescription medicines and keys.
Provides information about Park and Ride locations throughout the Puget Sound region.
Night Stop
Riders may ask the bus driver to stop at any point along the bus route between 8pm-5am. Riders should go to the front of the bus and request this service at least a block ahead of the desired drop off point. Decision to stop is at the driver's discretion and may be declined for safety reasons. Drivers will only pick up at established bus stops. For safety purposes, riders using wheelchairs will only be dropped off at wheelchair lift-approved bus stops.
Provides a day center for women and girls of any age who are involved with commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking but are transitioning out. Offers food, clothing, laundry, hygiene items and showers, as well as overnight stays.
Provides a safe haven for women and girls of any age who have been involved in commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking.
Confidential day center provides food, clothing, laundry, hygiene items and showers, as well as the possibility of an overnight stay.
Center also offers support such as free counseling and therapy, mentoring, support groups, transportation to medical appointments and court dates, life skill classes, GED prep classes, case management and referrals to other resources. Offers internships for learning job skills in administrative work, retail and coffee making. Also provides job referrals through partner organizations.
Virtual appointments may be made with an attorney to assist with parenting plans, criminal record expungement or immigration assistance.
Organization is faith-based.
Provides a safe and easy way to use on-demand ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft from a cell phone or landline. Offers notification texts to family members.
Offers a safe and easy way to use on-demand ridesharing services including Uber, from a cell phone or landline.
No smartphone required.
Rides can be paid for by friends or family members.
Also provides the option for family members/caregivers/friends to receive travel status text notifications about the rider.
Client can set up automatic rides for fixed medical appointments.
During periods of higher demand, the price may fluctuate, however the price rate of the ride is given before ride is ordered.
Often it will only take five minutes for demand to return to normal.
Call representatives can also provide fare estimates.
When matched with a driver, rider will be given their name, car type and license plate number.
Will also provide the estimated time of arrival (ETA) and give an automated call once the driver has arrived.
Vehicles are not lift-equipped, but drivers can help load the car or transport mobility equipment if portable.
Riders should be able to transfer from a wheelchair to a seat without assistance.
Community Services offered by King County Sheriff's Offices' Community Service Officers
Provides transportation in emergency situations. Offers crisis intervention for DV victims. Handles runaway cases. CSOs are unarmed - they will not respond to situations involving weapons or violent behavior.
Provides conflict resolutions in non-violent situations, victim assistance, referrals, and information on social services.
Community Service Officers are the unarmed section of the police department; they will not respond to situations involving weapons or violent behavior.
Offers a circulating shuttle bus with a route serving Downtown Kent and the Kent East Hill neighborhood. Board at designated stops or call to schedule a pickup.
Offers a circulating shuttle bus with a route serving Downtown Kent and the Kent East Hill neighborhood. Buses arrive each half-hour in the downtown area and each hour on the East Hill. Shuttles can take reservations to leave the route to make special pick-ups. Drivers are trained to help passengers with their bags, wheelchairs, or other accessories. Shuttle is a joint effort of King County Metro Transit, the city of Kent, and Hopelink.
Patient and Family Services offered at National Children's Cancer Society
Provides financial assistance to children with cancer and their families. Transportation fund covers transportation expenses such as mileage, airfare and lodging when a child needs to stay near the hospital for treatment. Emergency Fund provides $300/year in assistance.
Provides financial assistance to children with cancer and their families through a Transportation Assistance Fund and an Emergency Assistance Fund.
Transportation Assistance Fund:
Covers transportation expenses such as mileage, airfare and lodging when a child needs to stay near the hospital for treatment and nonprofit lodging is unavailable.
Emergency Assistance Fund:
Provides $300/year in emergency assistance to families who have a child that has been inpatient or away from home for 15 consecutive days within the past three months. Assistance may be used for mortgage, rent, utility payments, childcare, health insurance premiums, car expenses, or treatment-related expenses (e.g., meals away from home, prescriptions, and parking). Subject to change depending on available funding.
Bikes-for-All! offered by Bike Works at Hudson Site
Provides low-income youth, adults and families with a commuter bike and safety accessories.
Offers marginalized, low-income adults, youth and families a bike so they can have access to successful year-round bicycle transportation. Also provides participants with quality bicycle safety information.
Supportive Services offered by Catholic Community Services' Volunteer Services
Volunteers provide light housekeeping, meal preparation, laundry, yard work and transportation to low-income seniors and people with disabilities. Request 7-10 days in advance for transportation; other services may take longer; provided based on volunteer availability.
Helps low-income elders and adults with chronic illnesses or disabilities remain independent in their homes.
Matches volunteers to provide companionship, light housework, and other simple chores.
Assists with everyday household chores such as vacuuming, laundry, grocery shopping and yard work.
Drives and carpools seniors and adults with disabilities to doctor’s appointments, the grocery store, the pharmacy, and other important locations.
Drivers are able to wait until appointment is over for return trip.
Phone Buddies provide older adults with support through a weekly phone call.
Services are provided based on volunteer availability and calls are returned in the order in which they are received.
All volunteers are carefully screened with three references and a Washington State Patrol background check.
Due to the high number of requests and limited number of volunteers, may be unable to offer services to all callers.
Community Center Van offered by Kirkland Parks & Community Services' Peter Kirk Community Center
Provides transportation to and from the community center, to medical and other essential appointments, and grocery shopping for Kirkland residents ages 50 and older. Must be eligible for or applying for King County Metro Access.
Provides transportation to and from the community center, medical appointments, food pantry, and grocery shopping.
Access Paratransit Certification offered by King County Metro Transit's Accessible Services at Customer Service Office
Access Transportation provides transportation using lift-equipped vans for people whose disability prevents independent navigation of lift equipped regular public transit bus services; rides must be requested in advance.
Provides curb-to-curb shared ride transportation using lift-equipped vans and other accessible vehicles for individuals whose disability prevents use of the regular accessible public transit bus and light rail services.
Paratransit riders who have been found eligible can request trips one to seven (1-7) days in advance.
Expect trips to be shared and take as long as a regular bus ride. Also expect to be picked up a little earlier or later so other rider’s trips can be added to the route.
Use Access Paratransit to go anywhere within the same service area and at the same times that the regular public transit and light rail operates.
Inter-county trips are available to/from neighboring counties within each county’s service areas.
Patient Travel Help offered by Mercy Medical Angels
Provides free, non-emergency medical transportation for on-going or critical treatment. Assistance includes gas cards as well as bus, train or airfare. Additionally covers the cost of one non-medical attendant if the doctor finds it medically necessary.
Provides free, non-emergency medical transportation for on-going or critical treatment that is not local. Assistance includes gas cards as well as bus, train or airfare. Additionally covers the cost of one non-medical attendant if the doctor finds it medically necessary.
Commercial Airline Tickets
Provides charitable, need-based commercial airline assistance for patients and one medically-necessary escort.
The patient must:
- Be able to sit on their own once they are in the seat.
- Require little or no medical attention.
- Be able to transfer out of their wheelchair into their seat on the aircraft with little or no assistance (they cannot have someone literally pick them up and sit them in the seat).
- If the patient requires oxygen, some airlines may provide it during the flight. Otherwise, the patient must have a portable oxygen concentrator (POC) approved by the FAA or the airlines. Commercial airlines require no less than 48 hours advance notice to prepare for the equipment needed. The patient is responsible for making these arrangements and paying any travel fees associated with the oxygen.
Ground Transportation
Patients are provided with gas cards, or commercial bus or Amtrak tickets to medically related treatment. These trips are for non-local medical care more than 50 miles away. Gas cards are also available for multiple trips to local treatment.
Volunteer Transportation offered by Sound Generations
Arranges volunteer transportation to essential healthcare appointments for adults ages 60+ with limited transportation options. Trips must be scheduled the Tuesday prior to any appointments the following week. Dependent on driver availability.
Arranges volunteer transportation services to essential healthcare appointments for older adults.
Volunteer drivers use their own vehicles to provide rides for medical, dental and nutrition appointments for those who have no transportation or who are unable to use other forms of transportation.
Volunteer drivers also act as an escort, waiting until client's appointment is complete to provide a return trip home.
Seniors living in North Bend, Snoqualmie and Fall City should contact the Mt. Si Senior Center for transportation.
All rides are dependent upon driver availability.
Downtown Circulator Bus offered by Solid Ground's Transportation Program
Provides rides for people living downtown on low incomes and those who access health and human services in the downtown Seattle area. No card or other identification will be needed to ride.
Provides rides for people living downtown on low incomes and those who access health and human services in the downtown Seattle area.
No card or other identification is needed to ride.
The rides are available via a 20-person circulator bus.
T wo buses stop at one of seven stops on the 4½ mile route about every 30 minutes.
The stops were selected to maximize access to social service agencies in the downtown area.
Stop #1: 9th & Alder
Stop #2: 4th & Yesler (adverse weather stop is 1st and Yesler)
Stop #3: 1st & Marion
Stop #4: 1st & Pine
Stop #5: 1st & Bell
Stop #6: 9th & Virginia
Stop #7: Boren & Seneca
Transportation offered by Disabled American Veterans' Washington Service Office
Provides limited transportation to medical services at the Veterans Administration Hospital. Appointments are required one week in advance. Veterans can bring an escort or service animal (dog only) with a doctor's note.
Provides limited transportation to medical services at the Veterans Administration Hospital.
Appointments are required one week in advance.
Veterans can bring an escort or service animal (dog only) with a doctor's note.
Senior Programs offered at Pacific Community Center
Provides trips, transportation, foot care, flu shots and weekly social events for older adults.
Provides services for seniors in the Pacific area, including the following:
- Scheduled bus Trips
- Health services
- Exercise classes
- Board and card games
- Foot care
- Blood pressure checks.
Offers weekly social events. Other programs available; call for details.
Medicaid Transportation in Snohomish County offered by Hopelink Transportation
Pays for and arranges non-emergency transportation to Medicaid-covered services for Snohomish County residents only; call in advance for reservations, bus passes or reimbursement.
Arranges transportation for trips to WA Apple Health (Medicaid)-covered services such as doctor, dentist and mental health appointments.
Types of transportation include buses, taxis, mileage reimbursement and lift vehicles.
Reimbursement includes gas cards at $. 35 per mile.
No ambulance service is provided.
Does not cover prescription pick-up.
Bike Repair 101 offered by Bike Works at Hudson Site
Offers a program teaching the basics of bike repair to adults. Those who complete at least 3 sessions in the 6 week program will earn their own bike.
Offers a program teaching the basics of bike repair. Participants will learn how to fix flats, overhaul bearing systems, and adjust gears & brakes, working on bikes provided by Bike Works.
Domestic Violence and Gender Based Violence Advocacy Services (Yeha:wi Services) offered at Mother Nation
Provides direct advocacy for native women during life emergencies. Can provide transportation, housing and legal support.
Advocates for and supports Native women during emergencies. Services include the following:
- Emergency transportation for victims of domestic violence
- Safety Planning
- Public benefit application assistance
- Advocacy with Indian Child Welfare, Domestic Violence Court, Tribal Courts.
- Flexible financial assistance.
Transportation offered at Enumclaw Senior Activity Center
Provides transportation by Senior Center van within Enumclaw area for adults ages 55 and older or those with disabilities who live within van service boundary area.
Provides transportation to the Senior Center and some in-town errands. A map of the transportation service area is available upon request. Rural Van service is available to and from the center only within Enumclaw rural boundaries.
Care Van offered by Rainier Foothills Wellness Foundation
Provides non-emergency transportation to local hospitals, pharmacies or medical offices including physicians, dentists, optometrists, chiropractors, and therapists. Must live in service area with an appointment in the service area.
Provides rides to anyone needing non-emergency transportation to the local hospital, pharmacies or local medical offices including physicians, dentists, optometrists, chiropractors and therapists.
Van has a hydraulic lift for large wheelchairs.
Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.
The van is not equipped with car seats. If a car seat is required for a young passenger, the parent must supply the car seat.
Dial-A-Ride-Transit (DART) offered by King County Metro Transit at Customer Service
Provides both fixed and limited variable-routing transit services in King County Metro vans; route times vary; make reservation two hours to 30 days in advance.
Offers variable routing in some areas within King County.
By using vans that can operate off regular routes to pick up and drop off passengers within a defined service area, DART service may allow residents to arrange for transit service closer to a location.
DART does not go door to door. It operates on a fixed schedule, but one that has more flexibility than regular Metro Transit buses. Days and hours of service vary by route.
Provides both fixed and limited variable-routing transit services to the following areas:
- Mercer Island - Route 204 and 630
- Duval, Redmond - Route 224
- Highline Medical Center - Route 631
- Des Moines Marina District, Angle Lake Route 635
- West Seattle - Route 773
- Federal Way - Route 901 and Route 903
- Enumclaw, Black Diamond, Maple Valley, Renton - Route 907
- Kent East Hill - Route 914
- Auburn, Enumclaw - Route 915
- Algona-Pacific - Route 917
- Redmond, Kingsgate - Route 930
- Fairwood, Valley Medical Center, Southcenter - Route 906
Community Service Officers offered at SeaTac Police Department
Provides transportation in emergency situations. Offers crisis intervention for DV victims. Handles runaway cases. CSOs are unarmed - they will not respond to situations involving weapons or violent behavior.
Provides transportation in emergency situations, including child abuse and domestic violence.
Offers crisis intervention for victims of domestic violence, and assists them in locating shelter.
Handles runaway cases and incidents of abuse and neglect.
Community Service Officers are the unarmed section of the police department; they will not respond to situations involving weapons or violent behavior.
Provides customized options for getting around when bus service can’t meet needs in Duvall, Carnation, Shoreline and Lake Forest Park. Vans are driven by Metro approved volunteer drivers and are dependent on volunteer availability.
Provides trip coordination for the Shoreline-Lake Forest Park and Duvall-Carnation Community Vans in partnership with King County Metro.
Community vans provide residents with customized options for getting around when bus service can’t meet their needs.
Vans are driven by Metro approved volunteer drivers and are dependent on volunteer availability. They can travel anywhere within a two-hour destination.
Ferry Transportation offered by Washington State Department of Transportation
Provides ferry transportation for cars and passengers between various locations throughout the Puget Sound.
Provides ferry transportation for cars and passengers between various Puget Sound locations.
Ferry routes are the following:
- Seattle-Bremerton
- Seattle-Bainbridge Island
- Fauntleroy-Vashon-Southworth
- Edmonds-Kingston
- Mukilteo-Clinton
- Port Townsend-Coupeville
- Point Defiance-Tahlequah
- Anacortes-San Juan Islands
- Anacortes-Sidney, BC
Other ferry systems in Puget Sound include:
- Alaska Marine Highway System: (800) 642-0066
- Victoria Clipper: (206) 448-5000
- British Columbia Ferry System: (206) 441-6865
- Port Orchard-Bremerton Ferry: (360) 876-2300
- Pierce County Ferries, Tacoma: (253) 581-6290
- Lummi Island Ferry, Bellingham: (360) 676-6863