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On the November ballot, Pierce County voters will be given a chance to decide whether to raise their sales tax by 0.3% to expand bus options in the city.

A bus is only useful if you can actually reach it, note disability advocates, Across the region gaps in sidewalks or sidewalks that aren't accessible mean some riders, especially those with disabilities, can't safely get to a stop at all.

Speed bumps, cracks, loose gravel, missing sidewalks all pose an obstacle to Krystal Monteros as she makes her way to the bus stop closest to her apartment in South Tacoma.

I don't look straight up.

I usually stay looking down at the ground, and then I always have to concentrate on the speed bumps and stuff, too.

Once I get to the the sidewalk down there, there's a bunch of cracks down there on the sidewalk.

I actually have fallen over on the sidewalk over there too.

One of the biggest issues on the path is the last ten feet before her bus stop, when the concrete ends and is replaced with loose gravel.

When it first to rain and all that stuff, that's when it starts to get soggy.

When it's wet, it takes a lot more effort to go through there.

Monteros has advocated for efforts to get the city council to make sidewalk improvements, and also supports the proposed Pierce Transit measure, saying she would benefit from busses running later in the night.

There's so many times I've had to leave events early and everything, but I mean, I've always had to just manage around the bus.

Pierce Transit says the measure would add four new bus routes, increase the frequency of 21 other routes, expand paratransit services, and give seniors a free ride.

The measure will be on the November ballot.

Tomorrow, we'll continue our coverage of stories from Pierce County.

I'm Paris Jackson.

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