Tonight is a town hall meeting in Covington for the Transit Now initiative that was passed in 2006. King County voters approved a .1% sales tax increase to help expand transit alternatives and part of the new services will be targeted toward areas like Kent and Covington, cities which have experienced incredible growth over the past 20 years but with little additional transit infrastructure to support anything but cars on the roadways. You’ll recognize the lack of transit options mostly by all the crappy traffic on I-167.
With the addition of more buses and the train going through downtown Kent heading both to Seattle and Tacoma, there are more options. We need even more, but at least this is a start.
If any of our readers out there went to the meeting, I’d love to hear how it went. Feel free to leave your comments!
