Paratransit/Special Needs and Rural Mobility formula grants

These transit formula grants sustain and expand services to people with disabilities, seniors, children, and people living in rural areas.

Paratransit/Special Needs

Paratransit/Special Needs formula grants assist transit agencies around the state in sustaining and expanding services to people with disabilities, including seniors and children.

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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Rural Mobility

Rural Mobility formula grants support transit agencies in providing public transportation services in rural and small urban service areas. The funds for these grants are based on sales tax expenditures.

Awards

This table provides an overview of the $124.8 million in formula funds awarded to 31 transit agencies for the 2023-2025 biennium for Paratransit/Special Needs and Rural Mobility.

WSDOT awarded $108.4 million in Paratransit/Special Needs formula funding to transit agencies for the 2023-2025 biennium.

WSDOT awarded $8.2 million in Rural Mobility formula funding to transit agencies for the 2024 state fiscal year and $8.2 million for the 2025 state fiscal year. (WSDOT distributes these funds annually.)

Organization

Paratransit/Special Needs formula funds

2023-2025

Rural Mobility

formula funds 2024

Rural Mobility

formula funds 2025

Total award

Asotin County PTBA (Asotin County Public Transportation Benefit Area)

$130,179

$65,723

$92,544

$288,446

Ben Franklin Transit (Benton Franklin Public Transportation)

$7,021,875

$0

$0

$7,021,875

Central Transit (City of Ellensburg)

$8,436

$0

$0

$8,436

Clallam Transit System (Clallam County Public Transportation Benefit Area)

$1,047,873

$0

$151,197

$1,199,070

Columbia County Public Transportation

$658,047

$6,248

$0

$664,295

Community Transit (Snohomish County Public Transit Benefit Area Corp.)

$4,298,575

$0

$0

$4,298,575

C-TRAN (Clark County Public Transit Agency)

$4,826,660

$0

$0

$4,826,660

Everett Transit

$2,666,768

$0

$0

$2,666,768

Garfield County Transportation Authority

$153,296

$25,319

$42,062

$220,677

Grant Transit Authority (Grant County Public Transportation Benefit Area)

$2,255,616

$0

$0

$2,255,616

Grays Harbor Transit (Grays Harbor Transportation Authority)

$1,132,943

$954,410

$1,016,589

$3,103,942

Intercity Transit

$7,596,615

$0

$0

$7,596,615

Island Transit (Island County Public Transportation Benefit Area)

$2,624,466

$3,259,447

$3,633,031

$9,516,944

Jefferson Transit (Jefferson Transit Authority)

$635,437

$262,676

$81,220

$979,333

King County Metro Transit

$32,524,500

$0

$0

$32,524,500

Kitsap Transit (Kitsap County Public Transportation Benefit Area Authority)

$6,939,292

$809,531

$0

$7,748,823

Link Transit (Chelan Douglas Public Transportation Benefit Area)

$2,882,905

$0

$0

$2,882,905

Mason Transit Authority (Mason County Public Transportation Benefit Area)

$3,503,930

$2,473,848

$2,799,405

$8,777,183

Pacific Transit System (Pacific County Public Transportation Benefit Area)

$363,124

$210,151

$318,470

$891,745

Pierce Transit (Pierce County Public Transportation Benefit Area Corporation)

$7,012,661

$0

$0

$7,012,661

Pullman Transit (City of Pullman)

$519,228

$80,687

$539

$600,454

RiverCities Transit (City of Longview)

$701,599

$0

$0

$701,599

Selah Transit (City of Selah)

$27,763

$0

$0

$27,763

Skagit Transit (Skagit Transit System)

$2,272,582

$0

$0

$2,272,582

Spokane Transit Authority

$6,961,936

$0

$0

$6,961,936

TranGO (Okanogan County Transit Authority)

$124,649

$45,460

$134,193

$304,302

Twin Transit (Lewis Public Transportation Benefit Area)

$1,909,535

$0

$0

$1,909,535

Union Gap Transit (City of Union Gap)

$63,991

$0

$0

$63,991

Valley Transit

$756,323

$0

$0

$756,323

Whatcom Transportation Authority

$6,003,367

$0

$0

$6,003,367

Yakima Transit (City of Yakima)

$790,829

$0

$0

$790,829

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actively monitored on 918 acres in 2023.

25,000 safe animal crossings

in the Snoqualmie Pass East Project area since 2014.