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

University Place 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 University Place that will be impacted due to the service reduction.

Route 16 (TCC – Downtown) 

• Weekday – Revised. Span of service will be increased. Service will end at approx. 9 p.m. (Original plan 7:15 p.m.)(currently 8:30 p.m.). Peak and midday service frequency remain unchanged (60 min.).
• Saturday – Span of service 8:30 a.m. – 6:15 p.m. Service will operate every 75 min. in both directions.
• Sunday – Span of service 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Service will operate every 75 min. in both directions.

• Weekday – Revised. Span of service will be modified and start at 5:45 a.m. (currently 6:15 a.m.) and end at approx. 9 p.m. (Original plan 8:30 p.m.) (currently 8:30 p.m.).
• Frequency of service will remain unchanged (30 min. all day; 60 min. at night).
• Saturday – Span of service 8:15 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Service will operate every 60 min. in both directions in the AM & PM.
• There is no midday service.
• Sunday – Span of service 8:15 a.m. - 6 p.m. Service will operate every 120 min. in both directions.

• Weekday – Revised. Span of service will be increased. Service will end at approx. 8:30 p.m. (Original plan 7:30 p.m.)(currently 8 p.m.).
• Frequency of service will remain unchanged (60 min. all day).
• Saturday – Span of service 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Service will operate every 90 min. in both directions.
• Sunday - No Service.

• Weekday – Revised. Span of service will be modified, start at 6:15 a.m. (currently 5:45 a.m.) and end at approx. 8:30 p.m. (Original plan 7:45 p.m.) (currently 8:30 p.m.).
• Frequency will be reduced to 60 min. all day (currently 30 min. all day).
• Saturday – Span of service 8 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Service will operate every 75 min. in both directions.
• Sunday - No Service.