There is a good case to be made for consolidation of services provided by Snohomish County's Community Transit and Everett Transit. There is a good case to be made for consolidation of services provided by Snohomish County's Community Transit and Everett Transit. There are, in fact, two cases being made, one by each of those transit agencies. It would be wrong to dismiss this as an isolated transit turf war.
Transportation is a regional issue.
Thousands of Snohomish County commuters, many of them from Everett, go to and from jobs in Seattle every day, and Community Transit carries 57 percent of them. Snohomish County is part of the multicounty district included in Sound Transit. Community Transit already carries more than two-thirds as many Everett residents as does Everett Transit each day. But none of them pays sales tax to support Community Transit. Community Transit wants the tax revenue from those Everett riders.