This month, we’ve got news about a new partnership that is providing life-saving medication at transit centers, a temporary policy change that allows federal employees to ride transit for free, and an update on our fast ferry service for the month of November.

Due to a shortage of spare vessels, Kitsap Transit fast ferry riders may experience more trip cancellations in October and November on all three of its cross-sound routes.

Starting on Friday, Oct. 24, federal employees who present their ID can ride fare-free on all Kitsap Transit, Pierce Transit, and Mason Transit services.

Labor Day transit tips, an update on the extended Bremerton fast ferry sailing schedule, notes on our Sept. 14 service change, and how KT’s mechanics are learning to safely repair our growing fleet of electric buses.

Watch the Silverdale Transit Center get built from the ground up, learn more about coming fare and transfer changes, and tell us which new intracounty ferry routes you’d like to see!

Our April newsletter is here! Inside: Details about our new real-time bus tracker, celebrating KT’s 2024 Drivers of the Year, the return of summer fast ferry schedules, and an intra-county ferry feasibility study.

Transit in the Puget Sound region delivered 17 million more trips in 2024 than the prior year, according to six ORCA transit agencies.

New rider alerts, new Sunday bus service, new ridership records and a new training facility.

It’s time to reflect! At the end of each year, we like to look back on everything we accomplished, the challenges we faced, and how we can continue to improve serving our customers.

Changes include a new route, timepoint adjustments, bus stop changes and route pattern adjustments.

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Inside: A recap of our Silverdale Transit Center Grand Opening event, an important update to our fare policy, the announcement of a $17 million grant award, and the launch of the ORCA card for Google Wallet.

This month, we’ve got updates on proposed bus service changes in Silverdale, late-night fast ferry sailings to Seattle (with a new boat!) and thank-yous for our ferry crews.

Saturday sailings to Seattle run through September 28.

In our first newsletter of the year, we explain why we’re pausing Sunday bus service expansion, congratulate our Drivers of the Year and lay out service changes that will go into effect on March 3.

Kitsap Transit is pausing the start of Sunday bus service in Port Orchard, Silverdale and Poulsbo to give the agency time to evaluate the potential financial impact of a ballot initiative that would repeal the state’s Climate Commitment Act.

Happy Thanksgiving from KT! Check out our newest 40th Anniversary feature, a new bus simulator and information about our winter service change in this month’s Headways newsletter.

Sunday bus service is back! Plus: our Fall Service Change, behind the scenes of our ferry photoshoot, and state Roadeo awards.

Kitsap Transit’s maintenance team took home the gold at the regional Maintenance Roadeo in Olympia last week.

The next installment of our 40th Anniversary series is here! Also in this newsletter: the MLB All-Star Game, a new transit center, our BI Ride Campaign kicks off and a vanpooler wins big.