Paratransit/Special Needs and Rural Mobility competitive

Paratransit/Special Needs grants sustain and expand services to people with disabilities. Rural Mobility grants support public transportation in rural and small urban areas.

Paratransit/Special Needs and Rural Mobility competitive grants cannot be applied for independently. WSDOT awards these grants as part of the Consolidated Grant program.

Paratransit/Special Needs

This grant is supported by state funding from Washington’s Climate Commitment Act (CCA) (55.5 percent). The CCA supports Washington’s climate action efforts by putting cap-and-invest dollars to work reducing climate pollution, creating jobs, and improving public health. Information about the CCA is available at www.climate.wa.gov.

This grant is also supported by funding from the Multimodal Account (44.5 percent).

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Paratransit/special Needs competitive grants assist nonprofits to sustain and expand transportation services to people with disabilities, including seniors and children.

Rural Mobility

Rural mobility competitive grants assist tribes, nonprofits and transit agencies to sustain and expand public transportation services to rural areas of the state. Funds can also be used to purchase vehicles and equipment to support these public transportation services.

Awards

The table below lists 42 organizations awarded nearly $47.7 million in state-funded grants through the 2023-2025 Consolidated Grant competitive process. An advisory committee established ranking criteria, which included priorities from regional planning councils and WSDOT, for the competitive process.

More information about each of the Paratransit/Special Needs and Rural Mobility competitive grants is available on the Consolidated webpage.

Organization

County/Counties

Project title

Award

Catholic Community Services of Western Washington - King County

King

Volunteer Transportation Program

$111,576

Central Transit

Kittitas

Fixed route and ADA demand-response operations

$1,065,000

COAST Public Transportation Asotin, Garfield, Spokane, Whitman

Demand-response and deviated fixed route public transportation services

$999,214

COAST Public Transportation Asotin, Garfield, Spokane, Whitman

Four ADA-compliant minivans and one ADA-compliant light duty cutaway as replacement vehicles

$384,680

Coastal CAP

Mason, Thurston

Sustaining the Driven to Opportunity Program; providing demand-response service to low-income, disabled, and special needs populations in the underserved rural areas of Thurston and Mason counties

$375,058

Coastal CAP

Grays Harbor, Pacific

Sustaining the Driven to Opportunity Program; providing demand-response service to low-income, disabled, and special needs populations in Grays Harbor and Pacific counties

$676,524

Coastal CAP

Grays Harbor, Pacific

Grays Harbor Driven to Opportunity Program ADA van replacement

$90,000

Coastal CAP

Mason, Thurston

Thurston/Mason Counties ADA van replacement

$95,000

Columbia County Public Transportation

Columbia, Garfield, Walla Walla

Sustaining accessible, six-days-per-week demand-response transportation services for the general public and for persons with special needs in Columbia County, with connections into Walla Walla and Garfield counties

$780,834

Community Action of Skagit County

Skagit

Special needs mobility management project

$48,938

Community Action of Skagit County

Skagit

Operating assistance for training of staff and volunteers and coordination of public transportation in rural areas of Skagit County

$304,890

Community Action of Skagit County

Skagit

Fleet of cars for staff to conduct senior and disabled client home visits, facilitate street outreach to unhoused clients, attend training, and fund fleet maintenance and fleet storage space

$424,710

Community in Motion

Clark

North County Shuttle Service program

$465,100

Community In Motion

Clark

Employment transportation program

$511,501

Community in Motion

Cowlitz, Wahkiakum

Sustaining operating assistance for Reserve-A-Ride program providing transportation for seniors, people with disabilities, veterans, and other at-risk Cowlitz/Wahkiakum residents

$697,499

Community in Motion

Clark

Sustaining operating assistance for CIM's Reserve-A-Ride program providing transportation for seniors, people with disabilities, veterans, and other at-risk Clark County residents

$855,411

ECHHO

Jefferson

Volunteer driver program that provides no-cost transportation to elderly, disabled, and low-income residents of east Jefferson County

$34,392

Entrust Community Services

Yakima

Door-to-door special needs services

$461,982

Garfield County Transportation Authority

Garfield

Operating assistance to sustain demand-response service

$680,900

Grays Harbor Transit

Grays Harbor, Lewis, Pacific, Thurston

Replace 10 (ten), 35-foot-long heavy-duty coaches and two light-duty cutaways beyond their useful life

$663,200

Homage Senior Services

Island, King, Snohomish

Transportation Assistance Program outreach

$116,382

Homage Senior Services

Snohomish

Pay Your Pal program

$83,308

Homage Senior Services

Snohomish

Expanding Transportation Assistance Program (TAP)

$372,229

Homage Senior Services

Snohomish

Deviated fixed-route service from Darrington to Smokey Point

$605,000

Homage Senior Services

Snohomish

Sustaining Transportation Assistance Program (TAP)

$1,446,188

Hood River County Transportation District

Klickitat

Summer Weekend White Salmon/Bingen Hood River fixed route service

$25,093

Hood River County Transportation District

Skamania

Seasonal intercity, fixed-route service that provides access to the Dog Mountain Trailhead along State Route 14 during peak wildflower season from Cascade Locks (limited) and Stevenson (primary)

$48,000

Hopelink

King, Pierce, Snohomish

Regional Alliance for Resilient and Equitable Transportation (RARET)

$191,282

HopeSource

Kittitas

Kittitas County connector operations

$274,975

HopeSource

Kittitas

HopeSource dial-a-ride service

$1,880,367

IslandRides

San Juan

Sustaining Operations of San Juan Islands Shuttle System

$978,150

IslandRides

San Juan

Three Kia EV6s and one Chrysler WAV

$308,750

Link Transit

Chelan, Douglas

Transportation Reimbursement Intercommunity Program (TRIP-Link)

$142,500

Lower Columbia CAP

Clark, Cowlitz

Connecting the I-5 corridor: operating assistance to sustain rural public transportation service between Vancouver and Castle Rock

$969,750

Lower Columbia CAP

Clark, Cowlitz

Connecting the I-5 Corridor: capital vehicle replacements

$200,000

Mid-Columbia Economic Development District

Klickitat, Skamania

Gorge Regional Transit Network: inclusive outreach and education project

$77,000

Mid-Columbia Economic Development District

Klickitat, Skamania

Gorge Regional Transit Network: implementation planning

$50,000

Mt. Adams Transportation Service

Klickitat

Mt. Adams Express fixed-route service

$554,768

Mt. Adams Transportation Service

Klickitat

Dial-a-Ride Services

$980,756

Mt. Adams Transportation Service

Klickitat

Replacement vehicles for dial-a-ride and fixed-route service

$424,800

Mt. Si Senior Center

King, Snohomish

Mt. Si Senior Center Snoqualmie Valley Transportation expansion to weekend service

$450,000

Mt. Si Senior Center

King, Snohomish

Sustaining Snoqualmie Valley Transportation

$1,110,971

Northshore Senior Center

King

Northshore Senior Center transportation

$130,370

Okanogan County Transportation & Nutrition

Okanogan

Sustain Okanogan County demand-response service

$1,096,874

Okanogan County Transportation & Nutrition

Okanogan

Bus replacements

$428,624

Okanogan County Transportation & Nutrition

Okanogan

Sustain commuter routes

$946,890

People For People

Benton, Franklin

Mobility management preservation for Benton and Franklin Counties

$15,863

People For People

Yakima

Mobility management preservation for Yakima County

$153,329

People For People

Adams, Grant, Lincoln

Mobility management preservation For Adams, Grant, and Lincoln counties

$170,613

People For People

Adams, Benton, Franklin

Special needs transportation for Adam, Benton, and Franklin counties

$287,321

People For People

Adams, Benton, Chelan, Douglas, Franklin, Grant, Lincoln, Spokane

Preservation of rural special needs transportation for Adams, Grant, and Lincoln counties

$3,308,293

People For People

Yakima

Preservation of rural special needs transportation for Yakima County

$3,394,974

Pierce County Human Services

Pierce

Sustaining accessible demand and deviated fixed-route transportation for special needs riders in east and south Pierce County

$1,746,846

Puget Sound Educational Service District

King, Pierce

Sustaining the Road to Independence demand-response program that assists individuals with special needs in rural south King and east Pierce counties where there is little or no service

$32,861

Pullman Transit

Whitman

Fixed-route service expansion to the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport

$586,780

Pullman Transit

Whitman

Fixed route service in Pullman

$950,934

Rural Resources Community Action

Stevens

Ferry County deviated fixed-route service

$182,410

Rural Resources Community Action

Ferry, Pend Oreille, Stevens

Sustaining weekday commuter services between Kettle Falls and Colville and between Chewelah and Colville

$460,438

Rural Resources Community Action

Ferry, Pend Oreille, Stevens

Tri-County dial-a-ride service

$1,131,569

San Juan County Health and Community Services

San Juan

San Juan County transportation voucher program

$395,868

Skagit Transit

Skagit

Community engagement coordinator position to conduct outreach with Limited English Proficiency population of Skagit County

$7,917

Skagit Transit

Island, Skagit Snohomish, Whatcom

Northwest Washington regional public transportation study

$160,000

Skamania County Senior Services

Clark, Skamania

Route-deviated transit service

$217,856

Skamania County Senior Services

Clark, Klickitat, Skamania

Dial-a-ride service

$317,824

Skamania County Senior Services

Clark, Klickitat, Skamania

Skamania County vehicle replacement

$232,000

Sound Generations

King

Hyde Shuttle Eastside: community-based demand-response service for seniors and people with disabilities in Bellevue, Kirkland, and Redmond

$577,600

Sound Generations

King

Hyde Shuttle: sustaining a community-based paratransit service for seniors and people with disabilities in urban, suburban, and rural King County

$1,656,000

Special Mobility Services

Spokane

Spokane County mobility management project

$707,324

Special Mobility Services

Spokane

Newport Community shuttle

$104,906

Special Mobility Services

Adams, Lincoln, Spokane

Davenport and Ritzville community shuttles

$458,503

Special Mobility Services

Spokane

Deer Park dial-a-ride and community shuttle

$678,965

Special Mobility Services

Spokane

Replacement buses to sustain Deer Park services

$324,000

Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners

Spokane

Neighbors on the Go program

$211,885

Stanwood Community and Senior Center

Island, Snohomish

Snow Goose transit operations

$584,986

The Arc of Tri-Cities

Benton, Franklin

Demand-response transportation services

$48,240

The Arc of Tri-Cities

Benton, Franklin

Continuing operation of community van service

$85,689

Thurston Regional Planning Council

Grays Harbor, Lewis, Thurston

Expanding ruralTransit (rT) program

$941,176

Thurston Regional Planning Council

Grays Harbor, Lewis, Thurston

ruralTransit (rT) program

$917,650

Transportation Choices Coalition

King, Pierce, Snohomish

Regional mobility survey for priority populations

$80,000

Twin Transit

Cowlitz, Lewis, Thurston

Fixed-route and demand-response staffing and program support

$321,961

Twin Transit

Lewis

Demand-response and special needs services

$290,884

Twin Transit

Cowlitz, Lewis, Thurston

Fixed-route and deviated services

$1,052,943

Wahkiakum on the Move

Cowlitz, Pacific, Wahkiakum

Rural bus service

$885,084

Wahkiakum on the Move

Cowlitz, Pacific, Wahkiakum

Purchase two replacement buses that provide the only connection between Longview/Kelso and Naselle

$160,000

Whatcom Council of Governments

Whatcom

Sustaining existing mobility management services and expanding activities and materials to teach seniors and youth how to ride fixed-route transit

$26,111

Workforce Snohomish

Snohomish

Sustaining special needs transportation services

$203,280

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