More People than Ever Before are Using Pierce Transit Services


In 2008:

  • 15 million boardings on our 52 local routes in Pierce County
  • Nearly 50,000 average rides per weekday
  • 8.7 million service miles
  • 851,991 Vanpool trips

Helping People Find Rides:

  • 130 Pierce County employer partnerships support 72 Flex Pass accounts
  • 14,000 customers use the regional ridematch database, RideshareOnline.com

SHUTTLE Provides Service to People with Disabilities:

  • 451,686 trips in 2008
  • 7,968 registered users for the service

Regional Partnerships with Sound Transit:

  • 2.4 million boardings on 8 Sound Transit routes operated by Pierce Transit
  • Nearly 9,000 rides per weekday
  • 4.8 million service miles per year

Our Numbers Add Up to Helping the Environment:

  • Pierce Transit helps eliminate over 20,000 car trips in Pierce County every weekday.
  • Pierce Transit’s compressed natural gas (CNG) buses produce 20% less greenhouse gas emissions than diesel buses.
  • Each day you leave your car at home, you help keep 20 pounds of CO2 out of the atmosphere.
PT History
1979

Voters approve a tax increase to form Pierce Transit

1986

PT puts its first compressed natural gas bus into service and the bus fleet become 100% alternative fuel by 2004

1986

The Pierce Transit Vanpool program is launched

2006

PT becomes first transit agency in Washington with commissioned law enforcement

2007

Pierce Transit’s Brentt Mackie becomes the #1 operator in the nation and regains the title in 2009

2009

Pierce Transit would like your input about where you see PT Tomorrow