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The TDP summarizes the major or significant events that affected delivery of transit services in the Thurston County Public Transportation Benefit Area (PTBA). It also illustrates projected changes in local transit services during the next five years based on known facts and forecasted trends.

Consistent with the 2025 Budget and forecast of Planned Operating Changes programmed in the 2024–2029 Transit Development Plan (TDP), Intercity Transit intends to increase fixed route service on Sept. 7, 2025, by approximately 25,000 annual hours, an eight percent increase to the existing volume of service (based on service levels in February 2025).

The growth in service represents a substantive fulfillment of Intercity Transit’s Long-Range Plan and the associated Proposition 1 sales tax measure approved by local voters in November 2018. The changes to service proposed for September 2025 include a system redesign of local transit routes.

Intercity Transit will change fixed route service on September 7, 2025, by introducing two new express commuter routes between Olympia-Lacey and Lakewood in Pierce County. The change also includes the discontinuation of Route 620. This document includes an analysis of minority and low-income populations directly affected by the adjustments to service. 

The TDP summarizes the major or significant events that affected delivery of transit services in the Thurston County Public Transportation Benefit Area (PTBA). It also illustrates projected changes in local transit services during the next five years based on known facts and forecasted trends.

The TIP details the agency’s complete program of potentially federally funded projects for 2026-2029. It includes projects also programmed through the Thurston Regional Planning Council (TRPC) and the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC).

The purpose of the Strategic Plan is to define levels and types of public transportation services offered over the next six years and to determine the amount and sources of revenue to finance the services.

In accordance with RCW 35.58.2795, Intercity Transit has prepared and submitted this Annual Report for 2023 and a subsequent Transit Development Plan (TDP) for years 2024 through 2029. The Annual Report summarizes the major or significant events that affected delivery of transit services in the Thurston County Public Transportation Benefit Area (PTBA). Additionally, this document illustrates projected changes in local transit services during the next five years based on known facts and forecasted trends. Described in this plan are the methods and strategies proposed by Intercity Transit staff and endorsed by the Authority Board of Directors necessary to fulfill the provisions contained in our Mission and Vision statements.