NOTICE: Pierce Transit Boundary Hearing

Join the Public Transportation Improvement Conference (PTIC) and make your voice heared on Pierce Transit's proposed boundary and bus route changes tomorrow night, Thurs., March 8 at 6 p.m. at the agency's training center (at 3720 96th St. S.W.) in Lakewood.

Under the new route system, Pierce Transit boundaries will exclude Bonney Lake, Sumner, Orting, Buckley and DuPont, plus some unincorporated areas in eastern and western Pierce County.

You can read a description of the agency's plans and proposed route maps at www.piercetransit.org/ptic.htm.

The move to change Pierce Transit's boundaries came after 2011 cuts that reduced the agency's scope in its communities. If these boundaries pass, millions of dollars in sales tax revenue will be lost from the communities that didn't make the cut and thousands will be potentially without transportation in Pierce County.

The transit board in charge of the boundary revision process is a group that includes members of county government and representatives from participating cities in Pierce County.

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