Meeting with 10 th district representative Dave Anderson supporters of SKAT and Island Transit were cautioned that the local elected officials that constitute the board of directors for the two bus systems may not all want to hear about more local taxes. Still he doesn't foresee any new taxes until the people ask for them. We are not going to jeopardize local fire and police. Kessler then asked Melanie Bozak, interim director of Jefferson Transit what they were doing to cut costs. Most of all I want to thank all of you for taking time to talk about this very important issue which is preserving public transportation for people all across the state.
Mothers expect the bus to be there when they take their children to the doctor.
Boeing workers and other commuters expect the bus service to be there to get them to and from their jobs every day. Senior citizens, students, the disabled need the bus service to be there to get them where they need to go. And when we have weather like this, when traffic comes to a grinding halt people depend on transit more than ever. To the hundreds of thousands of people every day who depend on public transit, basic bus service, we simply cannot let them down. Severe cuts to our bus service will hurt all of us, so we simply have to do everything we can to keep that from happening.