Plan Worked Out to Continue Bus Service to Kitsap Mall
By Admin
Late last year it looked as if the Kitsap Mall developer would require that the Kitsap Transit Bus Transfer station be moved off the premises. Now an agreement has been reached so that bus service to the mall will continue and the transfer station will relocate across the road.
In November, mall officials told the agency that the transfer center can’t stay at the west entrance, where it’s been since the shopping center opened in 1985. A 90-day notice was extended a few weeks while the mall awaits permits to renovate the west and east entrances. It hopes to get started by Feb. 28, said senior property manager Rene Morris. Work on the north end is nearly complete.
“That was the primary reason to move the buses,” she said of the construction.
Transit staff will ask the board of commissioners this month to approve the Greaves Way station, on property the agency would lease at a nominal fee from the county. Buses would make 25 trips a day between there and the mall. Kitsap Transit and the shopping center are still working to find “the perfect spot” for a new mall bus stop.
“They essentially do not want buses in that (west) area at all, so we’ve identified three potential stop locations around their facility and we’re waiting for their approval to move forward,” said Kitsap Transit service development director John Clauson.
Read more: http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2011/feb/04/kitsap-mall-transfer-center-downsizing-to-bus/#ixzz1Du4TTDRJ
Update: Approval received to build new transit station.
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