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

Gig Harbor 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 the routes in Gig Harbor that will be impacted due to the service reduction.

Route 100 (Gig Harbor)

• Weekday - Span of service will be modified, start at 6:30 a.m. (currently 6:45 a.m.); service will end at 7:30 p.m. (currently 7:30 p.m.).
• Peak frequency of service will remain unchanged (60 min.); midday service will operate every 120 minutes (currently 60 min.)
• Saturday – Span of service 7:45 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Service will operate every 95 min. in both directions. Service will not operate to Borgen & 51st.
• Sunday – Span of service 9:15 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Service will operate approx. every 95 min. in both directions. Service will not operate between Borgen & 51st and Purdy P&R.

• Express-Weekday - Service will be remain unchanged 4 morning trips; 5 afternoon trips.
• Saturday – No Service.
• Sunday – No Service.