Comments on: New King County Metro Web Address

By: Sybyll

Sybyll — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:04:07 +0000

Just checked, it’s actually http://tripplanner.kingcounty.gov
if you want to go direct.
Don’t how long it’s been that way. All vestiges of Metro will be disappeared!

By: Oran

Oran — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:47:24 +0000

King County started transitioning to the kingcounty.gov domain in mid-2007. County e-mail addresses were one of the first items to change. Metro was the last of the major sites to make the switch.

As for the design, they switched to the unified blue county design on October 17, 2008. I can’t say I like it much, it’s bland and not distinctive. There’s too much blue, and too many links but not enough at-a-glance information. The trip planner form should be right on the home page, not a link that sends you to a page that redirects you to another page. Just take a look at the home pages of Community Transit, Washington Metro, BART, etc. They take up about the same screen space but they are more attractive and more useful. I understand the need for accessibility but they could do better than that.

By: Oran

Oran — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:22:32 +0000

They use http://www.kingcounty.gov/metro in all the printed schedules and publications but then redirect you to http://metro.kingcounty.gov because the former is a friendlier URL to remember as it corresponds to the agency’s name but the latter makes more sense technically. Funny how it sounds similar to the old metrokc.gov without the transit subdomain.

By: Ben Schiendelman

Ben Schiendelman — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:05:27 +0000

This didn’t have anything to do with the snow. It was planned much, much farther in advance.

By: Mike Skehan

Mike Skehan — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:34:03 +0000

It’s troubling that “Management by Crisis”, requiring “Bailout” solutions seem to be the norm in both government and business these days.
Whether it be a large bank, car company, or Metro, the pro-active styles of management seem to reside at fewer and fewer progressive organizations.
It took a melt down of the Metro information web site this winter to shame management to throw some bailout human resourses at the problem.
Where was the vision for the lone lady in cubicle world charge with keeping the system up to date — not only on a 24-7 basis, but keeping pace with technology.
A totally impossible task for one person.
I wonder how new and improved the web site is, or is it just a quick face lift until the next crisis?

By: Gordon Werner

Gordon Werner — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:03:10 +0000

it’s actually http://metro.kingcounty.gov/

By: Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:18:27 +0000

I’m not a fool. Those old transit.metrokc.gov urls have worked up till now, but starting this week, they’ll cease to work

By: Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:15:01 +0000

Really? So I’ve been the only one with broken bookmarks ? :(

By: alexjonlin

alexjonlin — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:49:58 +0000

I’m almost completely sure it’s been at that address for the past few months.