Intercity Transit is a

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organized as a

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Thurston County, Washington Thurston County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census, its population was 294,793. The county seat and largest city is Olympia, the state capital. Thurston County was created out of Lewis County by the go ...

, United States. It serves

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, and

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: an area of approximately . It operates 21 bus routes, the Dial-A-Lift door-to-door service, a

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program, and specialized van programs. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . Intercity Transit maintains a free shuttle route called Dash, which provides service between the Capitol Campus and downtown Olympia via Capitol Way.Dash Shuttle
/ref> Dash runs every fifteen minutes on weekdays, and every ten minutes on weekends, and is close to several public parking lots. In 2009, the

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gave Intercity Transit the America's Best Public Transportation System award for the mid-size category. Intercity Transit began a five-year

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pilot project in January 2020 as part of its service expansion approved in a 2018 ballot measure. The agency also launched a zero-fare express bus route connecting

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to Lacey in September 2019. The pilot was extended to 2028 amid the

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, which also forced the suspension of the express route and Dash.

Fleet

Intercity Transit operates 77

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, 33 Dial-A-Lift

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s, and 221 vanpool vans.Meet the Fleet
/ref> Intercity Transit purchased six new hybrid electric buses in 2010, and nine new hybrid electric buses in 2014. Intercity Transit is one of the first transportation systems in the country to use an all-biodiesel fleet. All of Intercity Transit's coaches are

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buses. They are equipped with wheelchair accessibility, kneeling doors, automatic stop announcements, and surveillance cameras.

References

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