a game challenging how you experience and advocate for public & active transportation

TranspoBINGO

About TranspoBINGO

TranspoBINGO is a week-long game that challenges players to use and support public and active transportation and enjoy public spaces in their city. The game rewards players for non-car travel—like buses, Metro, biking, walking, and rolling—challenging them to take different types of trips, explore their city and its public spaces, and support and advocate for public and active transportation.

An image of the 2020 TranspoBINGO Board, which includes different squares like travel to a neighborhood in a different ward, travel to a new-to-you park, and multi-modal trip. This board has personalized markers, consisting mostly of local DC people like the event creators, Councilmembers, and Pete Buttigieg.

A TranspoBINGO board from 2021 with personalized square markers.

TranspoBINGO 2026 Theme & Board

This year’s TranspoBINGO invites you to Play Your Way Through the City—where curiosity sets the route, exploration earns the points, and the city itself becomes the gameboard. At a moment when joy matters, playful challenges rooted in public and active transportation help us rediscover delight, connection, and a sense of possibility in how we move through our city together.

The TranspoBINGO 2026 Board will go live shortly before the game begins on February 5, 2026. In the meantime, you can view last year’s board and check out the Rules of Play and other details from last year here.

TranspoBINGO 2026 FAQ

How do I play TranspoBINGO?

TranspoBINGO is simple and fun. Each year, a new TranspoBINGO board goes live shortly before the game begins. Once you have your board, mark one square per trip and try to fill as much of the board as you can over the course of the week.

Share your successes, challenges, and everything in between along the way. Players who are online are encouraged to share their adventures with the hashtag #TranspoBINGO. We invite you to join us on Bluesky or Instagram. Players who are not online can find TranspoBINGO boards in various public locations, print their own board, or contact us for a board to complete.

When is this year's TranspoBINGO?

Join us for this year’s TranspoBINGO from February 5–12, 2026!
Share your experiences, meet fellow players, and collect prizes at the TranspoBINGO Active Transit Social on February 12 in DC.

Each year’s game is scheduled in February to honor Rosa Parks and Transit Equity Day, but TranspoBINGO can be played anytime. Just download a board and get transpo’ing!

Where can I play TranspoBINGO?

TranspoBINGO was created and is hosted in Washington, DC, but it can be played anywhere with just a few simple local tweaks. So join the fun even if you’re not in DC. The game recently transpo'd to Austin, Texas. And this year, the game is expanding to Baltimore, Maryland too! (Contact us if you're looking for help adapting the game to your city.)

Who can play TranspoBINGO?

Anyone can play TranspoBINGO. The game meets players where they are—whether you’re new to transit or facing limited options, eager to push your skills as an experienced rider, or an elected official who wants to understand how neighbors move through their communities. Newcomers can try squares that feel doable and share what works (and what doesn’t), seasoned players can stretch into new routes and advocate for better service, and decisionmakers can experience firsthand the systems they help shape.

Why play TranspoBINGO?

TranspoBINGO is a community-building game and advocacy tool. It’s a fun way for residents to support better public transit, public spaces, and infrastructure while connecting with transit advocates and neighbors. The game also pushes elected leaders and agency representatives to rely on people-powered and non-car travel, experiencing the strengths and weaknesses of our transportation networks the way residents do on a daily basis. By structuring the game as a week-long challenge, TranspoBINGO fosters a sustained commitment from decisionmakers to fully engage with—and better understand—the systems they help shape.