WA: All of Seattle’s Public High School Students to Get Unlimited ORCA Passes Under New Durkan Plan

During her first State of the City address Tuesday, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan will announce a plan to provide free transit passes to all public high-school students.

More than half of Seattle Public Schools high-school students now have access to free ORCA passes. The school district provides school-year passes to about 7,000 high-school students who live more than 2 miles from school, and the city funds passes for an additional 2,600 high-school students from certain low-income households, according to Durkan’s office.

Under Durkan’s plan, all of the district’s roughly 14,000 high-school students would for the first time get unlimited, year-round passes, the mayor’s office said.

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