Oct 31, 2013 | Transportation Choices
What does equity mean? When it comes to transportation and conversations around transportation investments in the Puget Sound region, what considerations to ensure equity must be made? Last week in Pierce County, the Tacoma Equity Network held a summit which aimed at...
Oct 25, 2013 | Transportation Choices
250 in Tacoma, 400 in Bellevue, 450 in Seattle. Across the state on the Senate Transportation Listening tour, transit advocates have turned out in huge numbers. Thanks to you, we’ve packed rooms, sent thousands of comments, waited in line to testify. Legislators have...
Oct 25, 2013 | Transportation Choices
As part of Try Transit Month, Tacoma’s Downtown On the Go (DOTG) hosted a transit-powered zoo adventure on Oct 19, 2013. After meeting at the historic Wright Park in downtown Tacoma, participants were provided with free ORCA cards and guidance on reading bus maps and...
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...
