Pierce Transit’s local funding rate has been stagnant since 2002, but a sales tax measure on the ballot this year could change that. If passed, Proposition 1 would nearly double bus service in the region.
Transit measures in Pierce County have had a rocky history. Voters rejected a measure to raise the transit sales tax in 2011 and in 2012 by a margin of less than 700 votes.
The failure of those measures was a huge blow to the region’s transportation network; it caused service reductions and meant Pierce Transit has fallen behind peer agencies, said transit advocate Laura Svancarek, the executive director of Tacoma On the Go…