Getting around Seattle with Community Transit

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Community Transit is here to get you where you want to go. We are proud to be a part of the Seattle community — we live here, ride here, and drive here. Wherever you need to go in Seattle, feel good about how you get there.

 

About Seattle

Seattle is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It is home to many regional destinations. The Seattle metropolitan area's population is 4.02 million, making it the 15th-largest in the United States.

King County Metro provides frequent bus service within the city and surrounding county, as well as the South Lake Union Streetcar line and the First Hill Streetcar line. Sound Transit provides an express bus service within the metropolitan area, two Sounder commuter rail lines between the suburbs and downtown, and its 1 Line light rail line between the University of Washington and Angle Lake. Further Link light rail extensions are planned to reach Lynnwood to the north, Federal Way to the south, and Bellevue and Redmond to the east by 2024.

Washington State Ferries, which manages the largest network of ferries in the United States and third largest in the world, connects Seattle to Bainbridge and Vashon Islands in Puget Sound and to Bremerton and Southworth on the Kitsap Peninsula. King Street Station in Pioneer Square serves Amtrak intercity trains and Sounder commuter trains, and is located adjacent to the International District/Chinatown light rail station. ( Source: Wikipedia)

Community Transit provides several commuter bus routes to Seattle from its service area as well as DART paratransit service and Vanpool to riders venturing to Seattle from our service area.

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News / Published on Feb 3, 2023

Arlington City Council Member Jan Schuette selected as Community Transit board chair

Arlington City Council Member Jan Schuette was selected by her peers this week to serve as chair of the Community Transit Board of Directors for 2023.
Headshot of Arlington Council Member Jan Schuette

Snohomish County, Wash. – Arlington City Council Member Jan Schuette was selected by her peers this week to serve as chair of the Community Transit Board of Directors for 2023. A former Stanwood High School principal, Schuette was elected to the Arlington City Council in 2013 and has served on the Community Transit board since 2016.

Snohomish City Council Member Tom Merrill was selected as board vice chair and Stanwood Mayor Sid Roberts was selected as secretary.

Snohomish County Council Member Megan Dunn was recently named as an alternate to the CT board by the county.

Former Community Transit board chair and Lake Stevens City Council Member Kim Daughtry was selected as PSRC policy board representative. Schuette was named PRSC alternate representative.

The Community Transit board is comprised of nine elected officials from Snohomish County and the cities within the transit agency’s service district, as well as a labor representative selected by the agency’s bargaining units.

Community Transit Board members include:

  • Arlington City Council Member Jan Schuette, chair
  • Snohomish City Council Member Tom Merrill, vice chair
  • Stanwood Mayor Sid Roberts, secretary
  • Labor Representative Lance Norton
  • Lake Stevens City Council Member Kim Daughtry
  • Lynnwood Mayor Christine Frizzell
  • Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring
  • Mukilteo Mayor Joe Marine
  • Snohomish County Council Chair Jared Mead
  • Snohomish County Council Member Strom Peterson

Community Transit Board Alternates include:

  • Brier City Council Member Mike Gallagher
  • Bothell Mayor Mason Thompson
  • Edmonds City Council Member Susan Paine
  • Mountlake Terrace Mayor Kyoko Matsumoto Wright
  • Snohomish County Council Member Megan Dunn

Community Transit is responsible for providing bus and paratransit service, vanpool and alternative commute options in Snohomish County. The agency is building a network of Swift bus rapid transit lines with the Swift Blue Line along Highway 99, Swift Green Line between Canyon Park/Bothell and Boeing/Paine Field, and Swift Orange Line coming to Mill Creek and Lynnwood in 2024.