Pierce Transit Cuts Service by 28 Percent; How Will It Affect Your Commute?

Puyallup residents will see reduced bus and shuttle services by Pierce Transit starting September.

The Pierce Transit Board of Commissioners unanimously voted to cut 28 percent of Pierce Transit's service at their monthly meeting on Monday, The News Tribune reported.

According to the Pierce Transit website, the agency currently operates at 417,000 annual service hours. 

Starting Sept. 29, 2013, it will operate approximately 300,000 annual hours, which is a 28 percent cut.

How will the cuts impact your daily commute? Tell us in the comments below.

Pierce Transit said the proposed Service Reduction Plan is based on an extensive system redesign project, robust public outreach since 2009, public communication associated with Proposition 1 and Board direction. 

In the November general elections in 2012, more than 100,000 Pierce County voters rejected Pierce Transit's Proposition 1, which would have increased local sales taxes by 0.3 percent in Pierce County. 

Click here for the full list of routes affected by the Service Reduction Plan. (Service plans are subject to change.)

Here are some of the routes in Puyallup that will be impacted due to the service reduction.

Route 400 (Puyallup – Tacoma) 

• Weekday - Span of service will be modified, start at 4:45 a.m. (currently 4:45 a.m.) and end at 7:15 p.m. (currently 9:00 p.m.).
• Peak frequency of service will remain unchanged (30 min.);
• Route will be extended to serve Pierce College Puyallup (replacing route 410 service)
• Midday service will operate every 90 min. (currently 60 min.) and midday service will not operate between 10th & Commerce and Tacoma Dome Station.
  

• Weekday – Revised. Span of service will be modified, start at 5:45 a.m. (currently 5:15 a.m.) and end at approx. 9 p.m. (Original plan 7:45 p.m.) (currently 9:00 p.m.).
• Frequency will remain unchanged (60 min. all day).
• Peak service routing will remain unchanged; Midday service will operate every hour from 171st & Meridian to Meridian and Emerald (Milton Way) and every two hours to Federal Way Transit Center.
• Saturday – Span of service 8:15 a.m. – 7:15 p.m. Service will operate every 90 min. in both directions. Service will operate between South Hill Mall TC and Meridian at Emerald only. No service to Federal Way TC.
• Sunday - Span of service 9 a.m. – 5:15 p.m. Service will operate every 90 min. in both directions. Service will operate between South Hill Mall TC and Meridian at Emerald only. No service to Federal Way TC.

• Weekday – Revised. Span of service will be modified, start at 5:30 a.m. (currently 5:45 a.m.) and end at approx. 7:45 p.m. (Original plan 6:45 p.m.) (currently 7:30 p.m.).
• Peak frequency of service remains unchanged (60 min.); midday service will operate every 75 min. (currently 60 min.)
• Saturday & Sunday – No Service.