Mar 15, 2012 | Transportation Choices
The special session is already well underway, as budget negotiators try to find a deal on the operating and capital budget. The transportation budget and a transportation fee bill passed in the final hours of the regular session, but a very important bill to give...
Mar 9, 2012 | Transportation Choices
The map passed! Three years ago, around the time I started at Transportation Choices, I was sitting around a coffee table with transit advocates like Chris Karnes of Tacoma Tomorrow discussing the future of transit service in Pierce County. The recession was in full...
Mar 8, 2012 | Transportation Choices
The state legislature is mere hours away from passing a local options bill that will put transit and local governments on better financial ground — helping to save, restore, and expand service across the state. This bill will give local governments and transit...
Mar 6, 2012 | Transportation Choices
Yesterday the Senate decided to not concur with the House versions of two important bills, ESSB 6455 and ESSB 6582. These two bills are crucial to the future of transit funding and service in Washington State. One of them would provide more local options to cities,...
Mar 6, 2012 | Transportation Choices
Pierce Transit’s future rests in your hands! There is a proposal on the table to shrink the boundaries to a more reasonable size that is aligned with service. Please attend this public hearing this Thursday and tell the Public Transportation Improvement...
