Community Transit
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Two deadheading Community Transit buses in Seattle: an articulated bus and a "Double Tall" double-decker bus
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| Slogan | smile & ride |
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| Commenced operation | October 4, 1976 |
| Headquarters | 7100 Hardeson Road Everett, WA 98203 |
| Locale | Puget Sound region |
| Service area | Snohomish County, Washington |
| Service type | Bus service |
| Alliance | Sound Transit |
| Routes | 46 |
| Stops | 1,500 |
| Depots | 2 |
| Fleet | 225 buses, 54 paratransit vehicles, 412 vanpool vans |
| Daily ridership | 33,500 |
| Annual ridership | 10,040,550 (2015) |
| Fuel type | Diesel (with some hybrid electric vehicles) |
| Operator | First Transit (commuter routes only) |
| Chief executive | Emmett Heath |
| Website | communitytransit |
Community Transit (CT) is the public transit authority of Snohomish County, Washington, United States, excluding the city of Everett, in the Seattle metropolitan area. It operates local bus, paratransit and vanpool service within Snohomish County, as well as commuter buses to Downtown Seattle and the University of Washington campus. CT is publicly funded, financed through sales taxes, farebox revenue and subsidies, with an operating budget of $133.2 million. The entire agency carried more than 10 million passengers in 2015, placing it fourth among transit agencies in the Puget Sound region. The city of Everett, which serves as the county seat, is served by Everett Transit, a municipal transit system.
Community Transit, officially the Snohomish County Public Transportation Benefit Area Corporation (SCPTBA), operates a fleet of 225 accessible buses, 54 paratransit vehicles, and 412 vanpool vans, maintained at two bus bases located in the Paine Field industrial area in Everett. Service is provided year-round at 1,500 stops on 46 routes throughout the county public transportation benefit area (PTBA). CT began operation as SCPTBA Public Transit on October 4, 1976, four months after the third attempt to establish public transit in Snohomish County was approved. Renamed Community Transit in 1979, the agency expanded service in its first decades of existence, later taking over King County Metro commuter routes to Seattle in 1989 and adding several cities into its PTBA in the 1980s and 1990s. CT service hours fell during two funding crises in the 2000s, after the passage of Initiative 695 in 1999 and during a severe recession from 2010 to 2012. Despite the cuts, which forced service hours to fall short of rising demand, the agency debuted the state's first bus rapid transit line, Swift, as well as introducing "Double Tall" double-decker buses on its commuter routes to Seattle.
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