Text for Arrivals

You can get real-time arrival info over SMS. Just text your stop number in and get real-time bus and train arrival info back on your phone.

November 2026 – Phone numbers and stop numbers have recently changed. Each transit service in the Puget Sound region now has its own text number. A text number or stop number that worked before may not work now. Bookmarks you may have made in the system will no longer work.

Find your stop number and text number

• Go to https://transitarrivals/com to find the text number and stop number for your stop.
• Look up your stop again, even if you have texted before.

The transitarrivals.com site keeps a regional list of stops for the central Puget Sound built from the published data of the region's transit agencies.

How to text

From Your phone

1. Find your stop on transitarrivals.com.
2. Tap the phone number, and your text messaging app will open with the phone number and stop number pe-populated
3. Send the message and wait for a reply with arrival times.

Looking up on a computer

1. Find your stop on https://transitarrivals/com.
2. Start a new text message to the text number shown for your stop.
3. Type the stop number exactly as the site shows it. If the site shows a word before the number, include it.
4. Send the message and wait for a reply with arrival times.

If you get an error message

• Some phone plans block texts to short codes (numbers with five or six digits). If you get an error, ask your phone provider to turn on short code texting for your account.
• Check that you are texting the text number shown for your stop. A stop number sent to the wrong text number may return nothing, or the wrong stop.

If your service has no text option

• Not every agency offers arrival times by text. When that is the case, the site says so and points you to a web tool instead.