 Community Transit , officially the Snohomish County Public Transportation Benefit Area Corporation ( SCPTBA ) , operates a fleet of 225 accessible buses , 54 paratransit vehicles , and 412 vanpool vans , maintained at two bus bases located in the Paine Field industrial area in Everett . Service is provided year @-@ round at 1 @,@ 500 stops on 46 routes throughout the county public transportation benefit area ( PTBA ) . CT began operation as SCPTBA Public Transit on October 4 , 1976 , four months after the third attempt to establish public transit in Snohomish County was approved . Renamed to Community Transit in 1979 , the agency expanded service in its first decades of existence , later taking over King County Metro commuter routes to Seattle in 1989 and adding several cities into its PTBA in the 1980s and 1990s . CT service hours fell during two funding crises in the 2000s , after the passage of Initiative 695 in 1999 and during a severe recession from 2010 to 2012 . Despite the cuts , which forced service hours to fall short of rising demand , the agency debuted the state 's first bus rapid transit line , Swift , as well as introducing " Double Tall " double @-@ decker buses on its commuter routes to Seattle . 
