Ah, the joys of commuting...
By car
- Current traffic conditions - real-time data on bridges and highways in the Puget Sound area; also has information on express lanes, carpooling, closures, etc.
- For the occasional car user (for example, someone who usually takes a bus), one option (besides the normal car rental) is Flexcar, which has more than 100 vehicles in more than a dozen neighborhoods in Seattle, Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, West Seattle, and Kitsap County.
By bus
- Metro Transit - bus timetables, trip planner, and more. Take a good book with you and your trip will be done in no time!
By bike
- The Cascade bicycle club has lots of info on commuting, biker education, current events, etc.
- You can get lots of PDF maps (or instructions on where to pick up a free bike map) from the King County Bicycling guide website.
By train
- Sounder commuter trains - from Tacoma to Seattle, currently three departures in the a.m. (with stops in Puyallup, Sumner, Auburn, Kent, and Tukwilla), and from Everett to Seattle, currently one departure in the a.m. (with a stop in Edmonds). As for the future? Here's the official (i.e., optimistic) word: "Once in full operation, 18 trains (nine in the morning and nine in the evening) will serve the Lakewood-Tacoma-Seattle segment, and 8 trains (four in the morning and four in the evening) will serve the Everett-Seattle segment. Headways (the time between trains) will be approximately 30 minutes. Some trains will run in the off-peak direction."