Planning your transit, bike, or walk trip just got a whole lot easier.

TriMet launched its multi-modal trip planner this month. They’re the first transit agency in the country to do so and it means you can plan your bike/transit trip or your bike, walk or transit trip all in one place!

In the past, if you wanted to plan a trip where you rode your bike to catch the bus you had to use more than one on-line trip planning tool. No longer. TriMet's tool not only allows you to change which mode of transportation you want to use or combine, but gives you great flexibility in what type of trip you take.

The new trip planning tool allows you to plan your trip based on elevation gain, time of travel, and safety. Coolest of all, you can make your own mix! Say you really don't want to bike up a hill but want a fast trip, you can choose a mix of speed and low elevation. The trip that is planned for you might take bike lanes on higher volume streets, but will keep you off that big hill!

Enough talk about this new tool. Go check it out at: http://rtp.trimet.org/