Intercity Transit Ballot Passing

Photo from theunabonger

After reading some tweets from transportation choices coalition and checking the Thurston County Auditor election results site, it looks like Intercity Transit's Ballot measure is passing by large margins.

As of 9:15pm, the website shows:

Intercity Transit Authority
VOTE FOR 1
Yes . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,242 63.60[%]
No. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,442 36.40[%]
Total . . . . . . . . . 28,684

This is great news not only for Olympia and Lacey, but also slightly for anyone ever wanting to take the bus from Tacoma to Olympia. As we covered before last month, the ballot would increase Intercity Transit's sales tax rate 0.2% to a total sales tax of 0.8% which is still 0.1% below the maximum rate as defined by the state. As noted in Intercity Transit's ballot fact sheet ^(pdf), the DASH shuttle now won't have to be cut and service improvements can be made on route 603 that runs between Olympia and Tacoma.

After seeing how that ballot passed by such a large margin, I'm starting to get more hopeful about Pierce Transit's upcoming ballot on Feb 8, 2011.