It was an unseasonably dry and warm October evening, and I was on my way to the Tacoma leg of the Senate Transportation Listening Tour. I strapped my lights to my bike and took off from my home in the Central Tacoma Neighborhood to the Evergreen State College Campus....

Tomorrow's election may be an "off-year," but it’s not an off year for transit! In Okanogan County, a county as large as the entire state of Connecticut, has formed a public transit authority and is asking voters for a 0.4% sales tax increase to fund transit service...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...