Key Peninsula residents will be able to hop on a shuttle and ride to Gig Harbor and back for free for the next eight months, beginning just before December.
Through the Peninsula Transit Pilot Program, a fixed route will run from the Longbranch Improvement Club northward, crossing the Purdy Bridge and extending through downtown Gig Harbor, and to the Uptown Gig Harbor shopping center on weekends.
“You got high school students that probably want to work after school, might not have transportation because their parents are working,” Pierce County Transportation Supervisor Daeveene May said in an interview Oct. 13. “You have sporting events for high school students on any given day that they might want to go to and mom and dad can’t take them or they can’t find a friend. You got seniors that, once they age out and can’t drive (anymore), would love to have some type of transportation to get to medical appointments, to connect to Pierce Transit and Sound Transit to get to Seattle or Tacoma or places like that.”…