2025 Annual Service Plan
ATTENTION RIDERS! Route changes are coming, including the introduction of new express routes—riders are encouraged to attend upcoming open houses to share their feedback and comments.
30-Day Public Comment Period Notice: 2025 Annual Service Plan
Ben Franklin Transit (BFT) is releasing the agency’s 2025 Annual Service Plan (ASP) and accompanying Title VI Service Equity Analysis for public comment on January 5, 2025. The 2025 Annual Service Plan seeks to improve connectivity and meet rider demand within BFT’s service area. The Title VI Service Equity Analysis was conducted to confirm that any adverse impacts to minority or low-income individuals that may arise from these service changes are mitigated.
2025 Annual Service Plan
The 2025 Annual Service Plan includes the following changes:
- Introduction of Express Routes 2, 4, and 7
- Increasing frequency to 30 minutes for Route 10
- Adjusting Route 20’s frequency on Saturdays to hourly starting at 7 PM
- Ending Saturday evening schedules at 7 PM for the following Routes: 10, 26, 42, 48, 50, 65, and 170
- Extending Saturday evening schedule for Route 40 to 10 PM
- Adjust Route 41 to clockwise only, 30-minute frequency, weekdays only, and reducing coverage of unproductive areas along Hood Ave., Kennewick Ave., and 45th Ave.
- Realign Route 47 to remove unproductive areas and provide more frequent service to some areas no longer covered by Route 41
- Realign Route 65 to better serve Pasco High School
- Extend Route 67 to Burns Rd. and down to Rd. 84 and Argent.
- Introduce Route 68 to work in conjunction with Route 67 and replace Route 268
- Extend a portion of Route 225 to serve the new Sageview High School
OPEN HOUSES
- Tuesday, January 7, at 6 p.m. at Mid-Columbia Libraries' Pasco Branch, 1320 W. Hopkins Street, Pasco
- Tuesday, January 14, at 6 p.m. at Three Rivers Transit Center, 7109 W. Okanogan Place, Kennewick
- Wednesday, January 15, at 12 noon via Zoom:
us06web.zoom.us/j/85431965448?pwd=0as0Nv5y4Wz0pB6bND5BX1QrLigNSa.1
Meeting: 854 3196 5448 Passcode: 593265
By phone: 253-205-0468 or (Toll-Free) 833-928-4609
- Open House ASP Powerpoint - English
- Open House ASP Powerpoint - Spanish
PUBLIC HEARING
- February 13 at 6 p.m. during the BFT Board Meeting, Ben Franklin Transit Boardroom, 1000 Columbia Park Trail, Richland. You may attend in person or via Zoom.
Zoom Link: zoom.us/j/98962178731?pwd=OGg1amhEQXA0RG5QRTdqNnFpRGN5dz09
Meeting: 989 6217 8731 Passcode: 833979
By phone: 253-215-8782 or (Toll-Free) 877-853-5247
Feedback can also be provided in the following ways:
Annual Service Plans
2025 ANNUAL SERVICE PLAN ENGLISH
2025 ANNUAL SERVICE PLAN SPANISH
2025 TITLE VI SERVICE EQUITY ANALYSIS ENGLISH
2025 TITLE VI SERVICE EQUITY ANALYSIS spanish