FlexPass

What is FlexPass?

FlexPass is an annual, comprehensive transportation benefits program that includes transit, rail, vanpool, and emergency taxi ride features. FlexPass offers simplified administration through annual rather than monthly administration and includes elements beyond the bus pass. FlexPass provides tax savings, reduces costly parking needs, boosts wages by lowering transportation costs, and attracts and retains good employees.

What is included in a FlexPass?

• Unlimited bus service on all King County Metro Transit regular routes
• Unlimited access to Sound Transit Regional Express regular routes and Sounder commuter rail service.
• Metro vanpool fare subsidy up to $65 per month
• Metro vanshare fare subsidy up to $20 per month
• Home Free Guarantee - up to eight emergency taxi rides per employee per year

How much does FlexPass cost?

A first-year FlexPass program costs $105 per pass in downtown Bellevue and $60 per pass in areas outside of downtown. An employer must purchase FlexPass for all of its employees. To see if FlexPass can save your organization money over retail passes, please use one of the FlexPass Cost Calculators.

Why offer transportation benefits to employees?

• Provide a tax savings for both employer and employee
• Reduce costly parking needs
• Boost wages by lowering transportation costs
• Attract and retain good employees

Why do employees value transportation benefits?

• Provides a range of transportation options
• Offers security through the guaranteed ride home program
• Provides a tax savings
• Boosts wages by lowering transportation costs

For more information on the Bellevue FlexPass program, please call Gayle Delanty, King County Metro Employer Commute Services, at 206-263-3444 or email her at employer.program@metrokc.gov.