SchoolPool Program and Safe Routes Toolkit - Rideshare - King County Metro Transit

We encourage families to share the ride or to walk or bike together to school. Our SchoolPool program and Safe Routes to School toolkit will give you the tools and resources to find smart, shared travel solutions to get your students to and from school, and after-school activities more efficiently.

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Benefits

Families save money by splitting the driving costs.

Carbon emissions are cut by reducing car traffic around schools.

Walking and biking may improve students’ health and wellness.

Easy as 1, 2, 3

In partnership with cities, school districts and schools, SchoolPool can help you coordinate sharing the trip to and from school, whether by carpool, by foot, or on a bike.

Sign up

Work with your school contact or principal to sign up for SchoolPool on RideshareOnline.com or call Metro Rideshare Services at 206-625-4500.

Find a match

To create a trip, enter your travel preferences and privacy options. Click save and SchoolPool will automatically show your trip matches.

Make contact

To bike, walk or share a ride, call or email your best trip matches.

For more information

Browse to SchoolPool information on RideshareOnline.com. You can also call 206-625-4500 to get the help you need.

Safe Routes

Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs support families choosing to walk, roll, bike, and carpool to school. SRTS activities help cut traffic congestion and make it easier and more fun for families to share the trip to school. Use King County Metro’s Safe Routes to School toolkit and resources to get started.

Toolkit

Everything you need to develop and carry out your own SRTS program at your school.

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Coalition-Building Guidebook

Create, implement, and sustain a team of engaged volunteers to lead local SRTS effort.

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Activity Book

Learn how to be a walking, rolling, busing, and carpooling role model with this fun activity book.

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Participating Cities

Go Redmond SchoolPool

Bellevue SchoolPool

Kirkland SchoolPool

Sammamish SchoolPool

Issaquah SchoolPool

Other School Resources

Green Teams

Classrooms or school groups can form a Green Team to conduct environmental projects at school or in the community, such as conducting a Green Team campaign to encourage carpooling. Schools can become King County Greens Schools by committing to increasing levels of environmental actions, beginning with waste reduction and recycling and expanding to other categories, including transportation.

Connect with Rideshare

Local Calls: 206-625-4500
WA Relay: 711
Fax: 206-684-2166

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KSC-TR-0812
201 S Jackson St
Seattle, WA 98104-0770

Vanpool Seat Finder

Enter complete home and work addresses below for the most accurate list results. Visit RideshareOnline.com to create and view custom trip lists with additional search filters, personal trip calendar, and available rewards.

Emergency and accident procedures

If you have an accident

Protect the scene:
- Turn on hazard flashers
- Move the van out of traffic
- Make sure riders are in a safe location
- Set up reflectorized triangles from the kit in your van
CALL 911 and report the accident (regardless of the severity).
Call King County Metro Transit at 206-625-4500 and report the accident immediately.
Exchange information with the other driver(s):
- Complete the back section of the Vanpool Accident packet envelope
- Obtain names, addresses and phone numbers
- Driver license numbers
- Vehicle license numbers
- Insurance information—You are insured through the King County Metro Transit Division (206-625-4500)
- If police are on the scene, obtain officer's name, badge number and jurisdiction.
Ask all witnesses to complete the "Witness Courtesy Cards" in the accident packet and put them in the mail.
Complete a Traffic Collision Report (inside accident packet) in the glove compartment for all accidents. Within 48 hours, email the report, fax to 206-684-2166 or send by regular mail using the postage paid envelope provided in the packet.

If you have a breakdown:

This information is for King County Metro VanPool drivers and their use.

Protect the scene where your van is disabled and call a Vanpool Service Representative; during regular business hours (8:00am-5:00pm), after hours call 206-625-4500 or 1-800-427-8249; the on-call staff member will be paged. You may call collect, but you must identify yourself as a vanpool driver for the call to be accepted. If you are calling from a telephone that does not accept return calls, please ask the answering service to patch you through to the on-call staff member. Be sure to have the following:

Your vehicle HOV number, (for example HOV1234)
Your exact location
Your van's condition and/or suspected problem
A phone number where you can be reached

For further information see Section 3 of your VanPool Program Manual.

If your van requires towing

Leave the van in a secured area, lock it, tell Metro and the towing company where you will leave the keys. Do not take the keys with you. Metro will have the van towed to the nearest dealership, assigned garage or Metro facility.

206-553-3000

WA Relay: 711

King Street Center
201 South Jackson St.
Seattle, WA 98104

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