Oct 11, 2013 | Transportation Choices
We’re 10 days into Try Transit Month, and what a start its been! As of today, our 823 (and counting!) participants have taken over 5,200 transit trips, totaling more than 48,000 miles. That means we’re almost halfway to our goal of 10,000 trips, and we still have 20...
Aug 8, 2013 | Transportation Choices
July brought some great news for Pierce Transit’s riders. The agency announced on Thursday, July 25, that better-than-expected growth in sales tax revenue was leading the PT Board of Commissioners to reconsider the service cuts planned for September. After many...
Aug 6, 2013 | Transportation Choices
Books on the Bus is excited to announce the selection for summer/fall 2013: Unaccustomed Earth, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri. Lahiri is the author of a number of acclaimed books, including Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, and the soon-to-be...
Jul 19, 2013 | Transportation Choices
The Call for Projects for PSRC’s 2013 Transportation Alternatives Program is now open. Applications are due to PSRC by August 26, 2013. Please refer to the attached memo for more information. All materials in the Call for Projects are posted on PSRC’s website...
Jul 12, 2013 | Transportation Choices
Legislative session ended last month without a transportation package, and without a local funding option that would have given local transit agencies the ability to ask the public for money. Money that might have mitigated the drastic funding shortfall that Metro is...