SNOHOMISH WASHINGTON NEWSPAPER | Thursday, April 18, 2024 | |||
Home | Business News | County News | Entertainment | Local News | Photo Gallery | Prep Sports | Roads Traffic News | Snohomish News Archive | STSPN.COM | ||||
Swift Network Expansion
Published:2017-06-03 County
Swift Network Expansion Snohomish County, Wash. – Community Transit’s Draft 2017-2022 Transit Development Plan (TDP) calls for hiring about 250 new employees by 2022 to help provide 38 percent more transit service for Snohomish County residents. While most of those jobs will be bus drivers, there is a need for mechanics, IT professionals and other support staff that will push agency employment above 800 in the next six years. The employment forecast is one aspect of the new Draft TDP. Each year, the transit agency looks ahead six years to forecast sales tax revenue, and to match proposed future service expansions with the labor and fleet needed to provide that service. Following a successful 2015 ballot measure, Community Transit has been focused on expanding service, including the build-out of a bus rapid transit network called Swift. The Swift Blue Line, serving Everett-Shoreline since 2009, provides about 6,000 rides a day, or 1.7 million rides a year. Construction started this spring on the Swift Green Line, which will serve Canyon Park/Bothell-Boeing/Paine Field in early 2019. A third bus rapid transit line, the Swift Orange Line, is planned to connect with Link Light Rail at the Lynnwood Transit Center in 2023. The expansion of the Swift network, as well as creation of other new routes and added trips over these six years, will provide 55 percent more transit service than the agency provided in 2015, when county residents voted for more service. “The best thing we can do for Snohomish County residents who supported transit expansion is provide more service as fast as we can, and that’s what we are doing,” said Community Transit CEO Emmett Heath. Other highlights of the Draft TDP: Draft TDP review and public comment Public comment on this proposal will be taken through July 7. Comments may be made in several ways: People can offer their comments before the Board of Directors at a public hearing at 3 p.m., Thursday, July 6 in the Community Transit Board Room, 7100 Hardeson Road, Everett, accessible by Everett Transit Route 8.
|
Snohomish Sports Network Advertisement
Advertisement |
|||