Kitsap Transit receives $13 million in federal relief funding
BREMERTON – Kitsap Transit will get more than $13 million in federal funding to help keep buses and ferries running while the agency grapples with a steep decline in ridership and sales tax revenue due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The funding is a small slice of the $25 billion allocated to transit agencies across the country in the federal coronavirus relief package passed by Congress last month. Transit agencies in the Puget Sound region – including Kitsap, King, Pierce and Snohomish counties – collectively received $538 million in CARES Act funding.
It’s a shot in the arm for Kitsap Transit, which has seen a precipitous drop in bus and ferry ridership since early March. But the total impact of the economic crisis is still unclear.
“It’s basically going to keep us operating while we figure out what the long-term effect of this is going to be,” Kitsap Transit executive director John Clauson said.
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