Everett Transit Service Change Tomorrow

Everett Transit, the aunt-who-moved-to-Florida-before-you-were-born member of the Seattle Transit family has it's fall service change tomorrow, August 23rd. I've only used ET about a dozen times so cannot comment much on the particulars, but I would like to praise the underlying philosophy of the changes. Unproductive tails, trips and routes are being cut with the hours reinvested in core service. In fact Everett Transit will now have its first all day (well 8 am to 6 pm) 15 minute frequency route after this shakeup (Route 7). Bravo!

Service Change: Effective August 23, 2015

Changes include:
Route 7 - frequency is increased weekdays and Saturday, added trips
Routes 4, 5 - schedule changes and added trips
Routes 2, 5, 12, 17 - select trips eliminated
Route 18 - added trips
Route 701 - route eliminated
Route 3 - View Ridge loop eliminated
Route 17 - Mobile Country Club loop eliminated

Holiday service is restored on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day, reduced on Day after Thanksgiving.

Here is a link to the new schedule book.