EVERETT, Wash. (Metro Networks Inc.)  -- Snohomish County residents who rely on public transit are scrambling to regroup, with a 20-percent service cut that starts today.

Heraldnet.com reports nine lines have been eliminated, service hours are shortened, and 100 people are out of work in the latest round of cuts by Community Transit.

This follows a large cut in June 2010 and a smaller one last year, for a 37-percent reduction in bus service in two years.

Snohomish county's largest public transit provider relies on sales tax revenue as its main funding source.

That revenue has dropped from just over 76-million dollars in 2007, to 62-point-seven million last year.

Agency spokesman Martin Munguia says the latest economic forecast call for only modest recovery in the next few years.


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