After engagement, surveys show proposed Gold Line is popular
EVERETT — Community Transit’s Swift Gold Line, set to connect Everett, Marysville and Smokey Point, is resoundingly popular with Snohomish County residents, new research from the transit agency and consultants showed.
There’s just one hitch: respondents were less enthusiastic about potential impacts to parking and left turns that would arise if the new bus rapid transit line’s most transformative feature — center-running bus lanes — comes to fruition.
About 85% of respondents to a Community Transit survey said they were in favor of the project, engagement manager Chelsea Ongaro said at a work session Thursday. In another survey conducted by research consulting firm EMC, a random sample of Snohomish County residents in the Gold Line’s footprint were 75% in favor of the project.
EMC’s survey gave information about the project to respondents as many of them were likely unfamiliar with the project, researcher Ian Stewart said at Thursday’s work session. Initially, about 83% of respondents supported it, eventually growing to 85% as they learned more about the Gold Line.
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