Intercity Transit
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Intercity Transit is a public transportation agency organized as a municipal corporation in Thurston County, Washington, United States. It serves Lacey, Olympia, Tumwater, and Yelm and Lakewood: an area of approximately Script error: No such module "convert".. It operates 19 bus routes,[1] the Dial-A-Lift door-to-door service, a vanpool program, and specialized van programs.
In FY 2024 the system had an annual ridership of 4,242,904, or about 11,688 daily boardings.
Intercity Transit previously maintained a free shuttle route called Dash, which provided service between the Capitol Campus and downtown Olympia via Capitol Way.[2] Dash ran every fifteen minutes on weekdays, every ten minutes on weekends, and was close to several public parking lots. However, this service was retired during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2009, the American Public Transportation Association gave Intercity Transit the America's Best Public Transportation System award for the mid-size category.[3]
Intercity Transit began a five-year zero-fare pilot project in January 2020 as part of its service expansion approved in a 2018 ballot measure.[4][5] The agency also launched a zero-fare express bus route connecting Capital Mall to Lacey in September 2019.[6] The pilot was extended to 2028 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which also forced the suspension of the express route and Dash.[7] All of Intercity Transit's fixed route services were suspended on April 13, 2020, and replaced temporarily by an on-demand system with advance reservations limited to only passengers with "essential business" as part of the local response to the pandemic.[8] Limited fixed route service resumed in June alongside the advance reservation system but ridership remained 70Script error: No such module "String".percent below its 2019 levels.[9][10] Intercounty service to Lakewood resumed in June 2021.[11]
Fleet
Intercity Transit operates 77 coaches, 33 Dial-A-Lift vans, and 221 vanpool vans.[12] Intercity Transit purchased six new hybrid electric buses in 2010,[13] and nine new hybrid electric buses in 2014. Intercity Transit is one of the first transportation systems in the country to use an all-biodiesel fleet.
All of Intercity Transit's coaches are Gillig Low Floor buses.[14] They are equipped with wheelchair accessibility, kneeling doors, automatic stop announcements, and surveillance cameras.
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