Community Transit veterans to march
in Mill Creek Veterans’ Day Parade
Veterans
who work for Community Transit will join clean air defender Oxy Gene for the
Mill Creek Veterans’ Day Parade on Saturday, Nov. 11.
The parade
starts at 10:30 a.m. at Mill Creek Town Center.
Community
Transit employs U.S. Armed Forces veterans as bus drivers, mechanics, planners,
managers and directors.
The agency
has received both the Patriot Award and the Above and Beyond Award from the
Washington State Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve for its policies and
benefits directed at veterans and reserve members.
Agency looks to increase small
business partnerships
Community
Transit has long worked informally with Snohomish County small businesses to
help them with commute needs. Now, the agency is formalizing a program
specifically aimed at businesses with 99 or fewer employees.
To help
better understand small business needs, the agency conducted a survey to get
input from small businesses along the county’s most congested corridors. Business
owners and managers can take the survey through Nov. 8. Details about the
program and survey can be found at www.communitytransit.org/smallbiz.
Meanwhile,
Community Transit participated in the recent North Puget Sound Small Business
Summit aimed at helping connect small and disadvantaged businesses with large
agencies.
CEO Emmett Heath noted that in
2015, when Community Transit initiated the first Small Business Summit, the
agency had about $23,000 in contracts with local small businesses. This year,
the transit agency is positioned to contract more than $4 million worth of services
with local small businesses.
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Bus service expansion continues in
Proposed 2018 Budget
Community
Transit’s proposed 2018 budget includes a lot of construction to support
expanded bus service. Next year, the agency will build 34 stations for its new Swift
Green Line bus rapid transit route, a new Seaway Transit Center near Boeing’s
Everett plant, and road improvements to help buses stay on schedule.
The agency
will also purchase 32 new buses, including six
Double Talls, as well as 84 vanpool vans (54 replacement and 30 expansion) and
15 DART paratransit replacement vehicles.
The proposed budget projects a 9
percent increase in sales tax revenue over 2017 and 5.5 percent increase in expenditures.
The Community Transit Proposed 2018 Budget is available online at www.communitytransit.org/budget.
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Join the virtual conversation about Swift Green Line construction, Dec. 5
Construction
on the 34 stations that will make up the Swift
Green Line bus rapid transit route is set to begin later this month. Swift stations will be built at 16
intersections between the Canyon Park Park & Ride in Bothell and the new
Seaway Transit Center near the Everett Boeing plant.
Stations
will be built in several phases over the coming year. Construction starts at
Airport Road & Highway 99, moving north through the Paine Field/Boeing
area.
Community
Transit will hold a virtual community meeting to talk about the Swift Green Line at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec.
5. You can participate from home, work or wherever you are on a computer or
mobile device.
Visit www.communitytransit.org/SwiftNews
to get login details, and sign up for the weekly Swift Network News construction newsletter.
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If you have any questions, please email TheRouteAhead@commtrans.org.
 Emmett Heath, CEO
Community Transit
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