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October 23, 2025
C-Tran to hike fares in 2026 to approach prices before COVID
C-Tran riders will pay a bit more in 2026.
C-Tran riders will pay a bit more in 2026.
New estimates indicate the cost of operating and maintaining light rail trains and express buses on the planned Interstate 5 replacement bridge will likely be less than half the $21.8 million annual price tag that shocked local officials in December.
In April 2020, just one month into the COVID-19 pandemic, the Vancouver Fire Department replaced one of its aging fire engines with a new rig that cost $614,000. Today, that same fire engine, built by the same manufacturer to the same specifications, will cost Vancouver taxpayers $972,000 and take twice as long to arrive.
Following a meeting with Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey and a tour of the recently remodeled and expanded Clark County Elections Office last week, U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, said she is a firm believer in Washington’s vote-by-mail system and that she will fight to protect it while in Washington, D.C.
A Thurston County judge has given C-Tran some breathing room in its dispute with the state over the transit agency’s board composition.
Faced with an impasse over what the state requires and what its own advisory group has suggested, C-Tran’s board of directors has agreed to seek a court-ordered solution.
Officials in some of Clark County’s small cities claim they’re not getting their money’s worth out of C-Tran and are threatening to break ties with the transit agency.
Officials representing Clark County’s small cities on a committee revising the composition of C-Tran’s board of directors are willing to risk millions of dollars from the state if it means they get more representation.
State Senate Minority Leader John Braun, R-Centralia, said he is still running for the 3rd Congressional District seat despite a fake Facebook post claiming otherwise.
