Kitsap Transit

The West Side Transfer station is in a bad spot and has been for years since the bowling alley closed down. There isn’t a place to use the restroom in a nearby business esp if u have three minutes to just use a restroom in a store and get back onto your Bus or transfer to a different one and in that time frame u have to leave right away to get to work, job interview, memorial etc and on top of that have to go badly to where u need to use the bathroom outside just to be able to do all of that

Fun, convenient only 2 $ wow!

Grateful to have the public transportation when I didn’t have a license.

I stopped driving altogether more than a year ago and rely completely on public transportation now. Kitsap Transit is a decent service for a community of this size and I’ve found my daily commute to be pretty painless. The buses are clean and seem to be well maintained. The drivers are generally friendly (with a few notable exceptions). Where Kitsap Transit fails to deliver however is just about anytime you want to use it for anything other than going to and from work (day shift only). If you want to go anywhere in the evenings, Sundays, and holidays you’re out of luck. Additionally, some areas (like mine) have no Saturday service at all.
I also want to echo what others have said about Kitsap Transit’s utterly ridiculous policy of refusing to accept their own transfers except at designated (and often inconvenient) transfer points. The fact that this is not an issue for ORCA card users (who may transfer anywhere for no additional charge) just makes it even more annoying. I too have been riding public transit all my life and I’ve never encountered this silly rule anywhere else.
All things considered, Kitsap Transit gets a passing grade. Let’s hope things improve going forward though.

I take the bus to and from the ferry on a daily basis, and have never had any significant issues, except on snow days (and I guess the universe is trying to tell me something on those days, like «STAY HOME, DUMMY!»)
I especially like that the Take Home service drops me off (basically) at my doorstep and that almost every driver is professional, friendly and genuine.
I do not like that service on Saturdays is drastically reduced and completely eliminated on Sunday. Even though I don’t need to use this service on the weekend, it’s a bit disconcerting that I couldn’t if I needed to.

strike two—
today: payed $ 2 in quarters (the last of my available cash) to get on the bus. my orca card has no credit on it so i ask for a transfer. I get off of the bus in down town bremerton. grab prescriptions and pay for coffee on my debit card (also almost down to $ 0) i realize that i might not make it on time to the down town ferry terminal station, so i hoof it further down the street to a stop that the bus comes to a little later.
bus arrives within a minute or two. i hop on a flash my fresh transfer ticket. the bus driver stares at me blankly and informs me that they only accept those downtown. confused, i ask «aren’t we still in the ‘downtown’ area». she scowls and then notifies me that she was referring to the downtown transfer station (at the ferry terminal).
bewildered, i say…“so if i have no money this is no good?” of course she replies, «yes, you must come up with some money». i say «peace» and walk off the bus and start on the trek to work.
I have taken public transportation in probably around 20 counties/parishes…a good solid chunk of my life has been spent on buses. i have transfered buses from bellingham all the way to portland in a single day… i think i have gotten the swing of things by now.
kitsap public transportation is the ONLY bus system that i have ever been on that does no accept there own transfers within a block radius of where i received it.
not to mention all of there other glorious afore mentioned faults (refer to previous review). the only good side to this was the exercise i got from not taking bus… ugh…water weight.

Well, I love Kitsap bus. I love the take home ferry bus. I love the fact the seats r comfy — I have never felt the bus was gross. I even lost my pass once and someone returned it — that would never happen on METRO. I hate King County buses so I think Kitsap is great. Yeah, the early stop times suck. And no Sunday service sux. I take the Navy Yard City route so I really only have dealt that.
I think the drivers are super nice and the fact they pretty much drop you off in front of your house is great.

Grr… Kitsap Transit is really, really, really horrible and I’ve spent many years with it being my only sort of transportation! First off, the reliability isn’t there — sometimes the bus is REALLY EARLY and sometimes EXTREMELY LATE. It’s difficult to predict when it will come and if you’re like me, you don’t want to be waiting out in the cold for an entire hour. Second, some of the stops are awful! Take for instance, my stop is right where the highway is. Not only have I almost been run over numerous times… but, 50% of the time I’m missed by the bus itself! I’ve spoken to many people with the same stop and they’ve said the same thing. The cost is terrible too; thank Bob we got those transfers back. When they weren’t available, it was an arm and a leg that you had to pay per transfer! Still though, anyone who doesn’t have an Orca Card is really out of luck. Buses also have the cloth-​like seat… and well, I’ve had many disgusting occurrences because of this. AKA: Sitting in almost-​dried pee. But, that’s not what bothers me… The most annoying thing about the service is the times. They do not operative on Sunday, Saturday schedule stops at 5 or 6, and some buses (such as mine) starts working at 7. This means that I don’t get the bus until 8. How am I suppose to go to work like that? Kitsap Transit is not for those who need a reliable and flexible service. It’s for those who need to go to the mall on weekdays.
Those who have a car. don’t take it for granted! I’d trade you spots any day!

No Sunday Bus or Foot Ferry Service.
Enuff said.

Probably comparing it to King County Metro or Sound Transit is a stretch and my problem, but it has by far the worse connection schedules ever.
If you are ever wondering why you see people running off the Seattle to Bremerton ferry in the afternoon it’s because they are trying to catch a bus!
Seriously?!? Yes– the buses that are called «ferry take home buses» will literally depart 5 minutes after the boats have docked– really?!? The only purpose of these buses is to take home ferry commuters and they will always leave 5 min after the ferry is scheduled to dock! Argh!
I give them an extra star for taking the orca pass– but other than that a sub par transit.
Oh and BTW my driver Never comes to a complete stop for me-​he is literally inching away as I step off the bus– I have to brace my self to jump off…
Kitsap county is not a mass populated area, if it were the city I would totally expect more from the bus system, however, I feel bad for anyone else that depends on public transportation to get them places. The gaps between services is horrendous at best, and you literally spend more time waiting for a bus than the commute itself.

For what it is, it works. For what you pay, it should be cleaner. The seat I had to endure a ride in for over an hour from SEATAC was so worn that the armrest plastic was DIGGING into my arm.

Me and Kitsap Transit go back a long ways. I have probably spent a good chunk of my life stuck in traffic aboard the #90.
The buses are pretty nice and clean — they have comfy cloth seats (I guess they don’t need upholstery that you can hose off like the big city transit systems do.) The buses leaving the ferry wait for it to arrive unless it’s way off schedule. They’re dependable — there have been several snow days when I have foolishly gone into work and come home to a blizzard, and Kitsap Transit got me home safely (plus I got to laugh as we passed by all the BMWs stuck in the ditches along highway 305).
Ok, maybe some of the drivers are a little nutters — I’ve seen more road rage incidents on the part of Kitsap Transit drivers than I’m comfortable with. And truthfully, KT isn’t really good for anything other than getting to and from the ferry terminals or the mall. But for a semi-​rural, mainly commuter transit service, they aren’t bad at all.