News Release
Release date: September 6,
2000
It just got easier to ride
the bus in the Puget Sound region
Coordinating a bus trip in the Puget Sound region
from Tacoma to Everett is about to change.
As part of the goal to establish a seamless public
transportation system, Community Transit, Everett Transit, King County Metro,
Pierce Transit and Sound Transit will accept each other's transfers beginning
Sept. 16.
A person traveling from Tacoma on Pierce Transit
to Seattle would be able to use their transfer on King County Metro to continue
travel in the Seattle area. The same would be true for people in Snohomish County
heading for Seattle and vice-versa.
The transfer will allow a person to travel within
another bus system's local fare zone or the one-zone fare at no additional cost.
After changing buses the rider would have to pay an additional charge if they
travel out of the zone where the transfer occurred.
Today's announcement represents another critical
milestone in regional cooperation between local transit agencies. Last September,
Community Transit, Everett Transit, King County Metro, Pierce Transit and Sound
Transit launched the PugetPass, a monthly bus pass that is good on all five systems
and provides unlimited trips. It was an instant success. Since then, the program
has been expanded to include the ferry system.
The PugetPass is as easy to buy as it is to use.
Riders can purchase a PugetPass by mail or from the pass outlets of any of the
five transit systems. For more information, please call (888) 889-6368 or visit
the PugetPass Web site at www.pugetpass.org.
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