Transit GO Ticket

Bytemark, Inc.

About this app

The Transit Go Ticket App allows riders to buy bus, rail and water taxi tickets using their mobile device. No more worries about carrying cash for transit fare, Transit Go Ticket is good on King County Metro Buses, Sound Transit Express Bus, Light Rail and Sounder, King County Water Taxi, Seattle Streetcar and Kitsap Transit routed buses and fast ferry.

Ratings and reviews

Works good for buses for me. You can prebuy many bus tickets; they save on your phone and don't expire. But not lightrail, those are 1 week max. Also lightrail doesn't take certain cards. Payment option just doesn't show up. Possibly confusing. Probably bad if you lose phone service before activating ticket, which can happen underground. When you first open app in the morning it wants to redownload tickets for some reason. Doesn't seem to react until app is again opened.

First, I'm really thankful Metro makes this option available - I commute exclusively by bus/bike and it's so handy to have this if I can't find my pass. Unfortunately I can't seem to get a ticket ready in time to present it to the driver as I'm boarding, because it keeps telling me I need to "redownload" my tickets to use them even tho I am connected to data. Shutting off WiFi and closing/re-opening the app seems to resolve it after a few tries, but by then then it's too late.

In concept, it's an amazing collection of transport in one digital package. But it's not much use if it takes longer to load my purchased ticket for visable verification, than it does for you bus to drive down the street and stop on front of you. Too slow to load. Edit: It's gotten worse. The moment your screen closes, it closes your ticket. So you open your phone, and either wait for the app to reboot, or restart it yourself from scratch. Then slowly reload the ticket from the in-use page.