[nfbwatlk] FW: Sound Transit News Release

[Jacob Struiksma]

ST launches new website featuring improved trip planner, rider-focused
design

April 6, 2011

Faster, easier access to more information will improve commuting experience

Sound Transit has launched a new website with features that make it easier
for people to take advantage of bus and train service throughout the region.

In addition to a clean, intuitive design, the website features an improved
trip planner with interactive maps that provide more information about
transit
connections and the locations of stations, stops and parking. Schedules are
easier to read. Menus are designed to be more intuitive for riders. As
before,
the trip planner covers all Sound Transit services as well as those of other
regional agencies.

"More than 90 percent of the people who log on to our website are riders.
Their input was critical to our process," said Ron Klein, Sound Transit
Executive
Director of Communications and External Affairs. "We listened, we tested, we
revised and we tested again."

The site is located at www.soundtransit.org. Improvements to the trip
planner include the ability to type in start and end points of a transit
trip and
see multiple options on an interactive map. The map allows riders to change
the start and end points by dropping and dragging colored flags. The
locations
of parking facilities and transit stations and stops are easier to find than
on the old trip planner.

Rider alerts - the best way to get breaking information on issues that
affect service - have been highlighted and improved. Riders can continue to
subscribe
to receive rider alerts and an array of other information via e-mail or text
messages.

New to riding transit? No worries. Just click on the home page link titled
"New Rider Guide" for easy access to basic information about Sound Transit
services.

The website will continue to undergo improvement in the weeks, months and
years ahead. A major upgrade will involve the Sound Transit Projects and
Plans
section that can currently be found at the top right of the home page.

"We will continuously look for opportunities to improve the experiences of
transit riders and everyone else who uses our website," Klein said. "If
anyone
has an idea for improving the site we want to hear it."

Visitors to the new website can offer ideas and comments by clicking on the
"submit feedback" button at the top right of every page.

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