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Spokane Transit Authority outlines Connect 2035, accelerates mobility-on-demand pilot
Summary
Spokane Transit Authority told county commissioners it has expanded service and plans to accelerate a mobility-on-demand pilot into late 2026 while weighing a 2028 sales-tax renewal; STA highlighted electrification grants, shelter shortfalls and youth ridership gains.
Spokane Transit Authority officials on Tuesday told Spokane County commissioners that STA has increased service since 2016 and is moving to accelerate a planned mobility-on-demand pilot to late 2026.
Carl Otterstrom, STA chief executive officer, said the agency now provides roughly 524,000 revenue hours of service — about a 35% increase from 2016 — and has directed resources to both expansion and maintaining existing service. "We are now providing more service than STA ever has, and, with 524,000 revenue hours of service on the streets in our community," Otterstrom said during the Jan. 6 briefing.
Otterstrom and interim planning chief Emily Poole described Connect 2035 as an organizational roadmap with three goals: improve…
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