{"id":389944,"date":"2010-03-04T15:55:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T20:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011255794_snohomishcountytransitservicecuts.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-03-04T15:55:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T20:55:54","slug":"snohomish-county-transit-service-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/389944","title":{"rendered":"Snohomish County transit service cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>End of the line for Boeing commuter service?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quite a few Boeing employees from Everett have been deeply involved in trying to get Community Transit to modify the service eliminations it is hell bent on ramming through [\u201cNo more Sunday bus rides?\u201d page one, Mar. 4]. We have been busy attending all the public comment meetings, board of directors meetings, writing letters and meeting with our elected officials at the local, state and federal levels.<\/p>\n<p>If Community Transit gets away with the eliminations of Boeing commuter service from East Snohomish County and North Snohomish County, 800 to 1,000 or more motor vehicles would be put back on I-405, I-5 and Highway 2 every morning and afternoon. The already overcapacity Boeing Everett plant parking lot will be overflowing.<\/p>\n<p>Boeing\u2019s Everett employment will only be growing in the next few years and Boeing is Snohomish County\u2019s largest employer. This year alone, another thousand engineers may be moving north. Eliminating commuter service to Boeing is shortsighted and pure folly \u2014 especially in light of the fact that the majority of Community Transit\u2019s revenue is derived from sales tax.<\/p>\n<p>Community Transit picked the low-hanging fruit and the most vulnerable of their ridership to address the budget shortfall it claims is driving it to make these drastic cuts. If the cuts in Sunday service and DART [dial-a-ride transportation] \u2014 which impact the disabled more than anyone \u2014 were happening in King County, I believe that the outcry would have been loud enough to stop Community Transit management in their tire tracks.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 David L. Clay, Snohomish<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End of the line for Boeing commuter service? Quite a few Boeing employees from Everett have been deeply involved in trying to get Community Transit to modify the service eliminations it is hell bent on ramming through [\u201cNo more Sunday bus rides?\u201d page one, Mar. 4]. We have been busy attending all the public comment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}