Dept. of Transportation
Metro Transit Division

King Street Center
201 S Jackson St
Seattle, WA 98104
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Metro Rideshare Operations

Sharing the ride to work or school is a smart transportation choice. King County Metro Rideshare Operations provides various services to help you start pooling and to support your commuter pool.

Ridematch - RideshareOnline.com is a free online self-serve ridematching service that -- in a matter of minutes, day or night -- helps you find others who want to carpool or vanpool and have a similar commute.

Commuter Vans -

  • VanPool - Metro manages the largest publicly owned and operated commuter van program in the nation, providing vans and everything else required to operate them.
  • VanShare - bridging the gap between you and transit, ferry and Sounder train service with commuter vans just for these commute connections.

Contact Metro Rideshare Operations: vanpool.information@kingcounty.gov (e-mail), 206-625-4500 (voice), 1-800-427-8249 (toll free) or TTY Relay 1-800-833-6388, 206-684-2166 (fax), M.S. YES-TR-0700, 400 Yesler Wy, Seattle, WA 98104-2683 (mail).

Note What's New

SPECIAL VANPOOL PROMOTION: Start a new 7-passenger King County Metro vanpool and pay just 40 bucks a month per person for the first two months. Gas, insurance and maintenance are all included. This promotion limited to the first 36 new groups who start vanpooling by December 31, 2009. Call 206-625-4500 to get in a vanpool today!


Prepared for Emergencies?
Snow, floods... before an emergency hits, use this helpful commuter checklist [.pdf] to get prepared.

And, if you are an employer too, here is an employer checklist [.pdf]