RENO PROBERT: The Pierce Transit Board voted Monday to send a measure to the November ballot. It would increase the amount people pay in sales tax for transit funding. N-W-P-B’s Lauren Gallup reports.
LAUREN GALLUP: If Pierce County voters approve the measure, Pierce Transit plans to use the money to add new routes, operate buses later and make bus service more frequent.
Speaking before the transit board meeting, Krystal Monteros said more frequent service would benefit people like her who use a wheelchair.
The county’s buses only have two spaces for people using a wheelchair. That can mean long waits for multiple wheelchair users trying to ride the same bus. 
KRYSTAL MONTEROS: “ If the bus only goes every hour, two of us can only go, if those spaces are available, two of us can go. And then we literally have to wait another hour for the next two people just to go.” [0:13]
GALLUP: The measure would raise the tax by three cents. That means it will go from six cents to nine cents per every ten dollars spent on qualifying purchases.
In Lakewood, I’m Lauren Gallup.