Local bus service around here is largely paid for by local sales taxes.
With the retail crash, those revenues have been hardly hit.
In Snohomish County, Community Transit axed all Sunday and holiday service, and is still fiscally struggling.
One response: Start a PR campaign to encourage taxpayers. Its title:Â Buy Local for Transit.
You want reliable public transport? Stay away from those online e-tailers. And from those Seattle and Bellevue stores.
And because Community Transit’s taxing district is so weirdly put together, don’t even shop in Everett.
You can go to Lynnwood, Edmonds, Snohomish, and Stanwood. You can shop at Alderwood Mall and the Tulalip outlet mall. All of these send a few sub-percentage points into CT’s operations.
Of course, if you really want to keep the buses running, you could buy a car. But that would be sort of beside the point.
