Date:  Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Contact:
Michele Villnave, WSDOT Communications, 360-705-7875 (Olympia) 
Don Chartock, WSDOT Rural and Coordinated Program, 360-705-7928 (Olympia)

PORT ANGELES - WSDOT held a ribbon cutting ceremony earlier today celebrating the Travel Washington Dungeness Line bus service from Port Angeles to SeaTac. Travel Washington Dungeness Line is the next step in establishing the Washington Intercity Rural Bus Program. The Dungeness Line service will operate daily and offer two scheduled round trips between Port Angeles and SeaTac.

“This route will be the first Travel Washington intercity bus route that provides international connections for rural residents of Washington State,” said Don Chartock, Rural and Coordinated Program, “It will provide improved-upon service with vital links to Greyhound, Amtrak, Washington State Ferries and ferry service to Victoria, British Columbia.”

The Travel Washington Dungeness Line is part of the only intercity statewide network in the nation funded through a Federal Transit Administration (FTA) pilot program that matches private sector investments with grant money. WSDOT awarded the grant to Olympic Bus Lines to provide the service.

Intercity bus service is public transportation to a city with the intent of making timed connections to additional cities from rural to urban areas. Intercity transportation is not only about getting from Port Angeles to SeaTac; it is about getting from Port Angeles to any place in the country. All of the Travel Washington routes will make connections with other intercity carriers. This coordination means that people will have reliable transportation to wherever they want to go.

For more information on the Travel Washington Dungeness Line and to learn, more about Washington State’s Intercity Bus Plan visit http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/transit/intercity.

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