A measure that would have increased funding for Pierce Transit failed by 704 votes, according to final election results released today.
A measure that would have increased funding for Pierce Transit failed by 704 votes, according to final election results released today.
Proposition 1 would have raised sales tax within the agency’s boundaries by three-tenths of one percent.
Read more here: http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/2012/11/27/pierce-transit-measure-fails-by-704-votes/
Transit advocates used a forum in Tacoma Thursday to offer options that would generate more money for bus service, whether directly from the state or by imposing a motor vehicle excise tax.
A tax-raising measure for Fire Protection District No. 23 that narrowly failed in the primary was approved in the general election. By a single vote.
Pierce Transit has a credibility problem with the citizens who live within its taxing district. It should solve that problem at home, not do an end run through the Legislature.
Pierce Transit’s board is expected to decide Monday whether to cut service this summer or wait until February 2014 as a result of voters rejecting a sales tax increase in November. Either way, bus routes will be cut by more than one-third.
Pierce Transit has decided it wants to restore some Saturday and Sunday bus service to a plan that would eliminate all weekend routes in September.
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