Editing Bonney Lake, Washington (section)

==Transportation==

Bonney Lake is bisected by [[Washington State Route 410|State Route 410]], which has connections to the rest of the Seattle metropolitan area as well as the northeast side of [[Mount Rainier]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Merrill |first=John |date=March 14, 2014 |title=Bonney Lake: Small town has big plans |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/bonney-lake-small-town-has-big-plans/ |work=The Seattle Times |accessdate=January 16, 2025}}</ref> Public transportation service within the city was provided by [[Pierce Transit]] until 2012, when Bonney Lake left the transit agency's [[public transportation benefit area]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Glenn |first=Stacia |date=March 9, 2012 |title=East Pierce cut out of transit boundaries |page=A7 |work=The News Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-tribune-east-pierce-cut-out-of/163232258/ |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |accessdate=January 16, 2025}}</ref> The city's local bus service had been cut due to earlier funding shortages and the failure of a countywide [[sales tax]] measure to fund operations.<ref>{{cite news |last=Schilling |first=Sara |date=January 6, 2012 |title=Pierce Transit service map excludes swaths of east, west county |url=http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/01/06/1972519/pierce-transit-service-map-excludes.html |work=The News Tribune |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120129050011/http://www.thenewstribune.com/2012/01/06/1972519/pierce-transit-service-map-excludes.html |archive-date=January 29, 2012 |accessdate=January 16, 2025}}</ref> A peak-only route that connects to [[Sumner station]], with onward [[Sounder commuter rail]] service to [[Seattle]], was discontinued by Pierce Transit in June 2012 and transferred to [[Sound Transit]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Schilling |first=Sara |date=April 23, 2012 |title=New proposal may salvage Sumner bus route |page=A3 |work=The News Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-tribune-new-proposal-may-salvag/163232347/ |via=Newspapers.com |accessdate=January 16, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release |date=April 26, 2012 |title=Sound Transit to operate commuter bus route between Bonney Lake Park-and-Ride and Sumner Sounder Station |url=https://www.soundtransit.org/get-to-know-us/news-events/news-releases/sound-transit-to-operate-commuter-bus-route-between-bonney |publisher=[[Sound Transit]] |accessdate=January 16, 2025}}</ref> Bonney Lake continued to be within the Sound Transit district boundaries; its Pierce Transit-owned [[park-and-ride]] lot was acquired by Sound Transit in 2014.<ref>{{cite news |last=Miller-Still |first=Ray |date=September 8, 2014 |title=Bonney Lake transit service will continue |url=https://www.courierherald.com/news/bonney-lake-transit-service-will-continue/ |work=[[Enumclaw Courier-Herald|Bonney Lake-Sumner Courier-Herald]] |accessdate=January 16, 2025}}</ref>