Bus Route #50 service from Sequim to the Jamestown Campus has been funded through 2018. The Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe was successful in securing a 2015 Tribal Transportation Discretionary aware of $76,413 from the Federal Transit Authority.

This, coupled with an award of $138,432 from WSDOT’s Consolidated Grants Program, will fund continued weekday service from Sequim to Blyn on Clallam Transit System’s Route #50 (downtown Sequim to the Jamestown Campus) through April 2018.

Since 2010, this route has been funded primarily by grant funding awarded to the tribe and supplemented by tribal discretionary revenues, at an average cost of $80,000 per year.

The funding, based on Clallam Transit System’s actual labor and mileage costs, is passed directly from the tribe to Clallam Transit System.

Prior to the inception of Route #50 in 2010, Clallam Transit made three daily runs to Diamond Point on Route #52, stopping in Blyn at approximately 7 a.m., noon and 6 pm. This left long gaps during the day, forcing transit-riding clients of the Jamestown Family Dental Clinic or Social and Community Services, and employees who worked split shifts in Blyn to wait hours for the next scheduled run.

The tribe made the case for adding four additional runs per weekday – arriving in Blyn at 8 a.m., 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 5 p.m., to assist clients and employees who needed to get to Blyn on mass transit at various times of day on Monday through Friday. This route also serves as a connector to transit riders traveling beyond Clallam County and is available to all riders, subject to fares set and collected by Clallam Transit.

The majority of the funding has been awarded by the Federal Transit Administration.