Pierce County, WA
Released by The News Tribune
Now that voters have rejected a permanent sales tax increase for Pierce Transit, what’s Plan B?
In the runup to the Nov. 6 election, the agency said that if Proposition 1 failed, it would have to cut weekend and evening service (after 7 p.m.) – on top of cuts that already have been made. From early spring 2014 to 2017, service hours would be cut from 419,000 to 197,000. Shuttle service for the elderly and disabled, which has been reduced significantly already, would be cut back even more…
More info at http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/11/18/2371837/pierce-transit-must-regroup-rethink.html