Intercity Transit

Intercity Transit
Slogan We're going your way.
Headquarters 526 Pattison St. SE, Olympia
Service area Thurston County, Washington
Service type bus service, paratransit
Routes 24[1]
Daily ridership 14,000[2]
Fuel type B20 Diesel (Biodiesel)
General Manager Ann Freeman-Manzanares[3]
Website intercitytransit.com
Intercity Transit "Dash" Bus 951 running in the Lakefair parade

Intercity Transit is a public transportation service organized as a municipal corporation. It serves Lacey, Olympia, Tumwater, and Yelm, Washington: an area of approximately 94 square miles (240 km2). It operates 24 bus routes, the Dial-A-Lift door-to-door service for people with disabilities, a vanpool program, and specialized van programs, and it is active in community partnerships.

Intercity Transit maintains a free shuttle route called Dash, which provides service between the Capitol Campus and downtown Olympia via Capitol Way.[4] Dash runs every fifteen minutes on weekdays, and every ten minutes on weekends, and is close to several public parking lots.

In 2009, the American Public Transportation Association gave Intercity Transit the America's Best Public Transportation System award for the mid-size category.[5]

Fleet

Intercity Transit operates 68 coaches, 33 Dial-A-Lift vans, and 221 vanpool vans.[6] Intercity Transit purchased six new hybrid electric buses in 2010,[7] and is one of the first transportation systems in the country to use an all-biodiesel fleet.

Sixty-six of Intercity Transit's coaches are Gillig Low Floor buses, while two are Gillig Phantom buses.[8] They are equipped with:

Routes

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