SEQUIM — There may be no bigger boosters of Clallam Transit buses than the boys and girls of Bibity Bobity Child Care.

The Carlsborg day care’s denizens use Clallam Transit’s Dial-A-Ride service to take field trips to Port Townsend, the Pacific Ocean and seemingly every place in between — from bowling alleys to Carrie Blake and Lincoln parks’ playfields.

“They pick us right up at the door and take us right where we want to go,” said Bibity Bobity director Rachel Anderson.

“Without them, we’d have to stay in the day care all the time.”

That’s why Anderson, along with 15 of Bibity Bobity’s preschool-age children, bearing signs and dressed up in Bibity Bobity T-shirts, joined a host of city officials, civic leaders and curious onlookers Monday morning for the dedication ceremony of the new $1.8 million Sequim Transportation Center.

“We want them to know how much we appreciate what they do for us,” Anderson said.

75 at event

About 75 people turned out for the event, including most members of the Sequim City Council and Clallam Transit board.

The ceremony also marked one of the last official functions for departing Clallam Transit executive director Dan Di Giulio, who is handing the agency’s reins over to his successor, Terry Weed, as of Jan. 1.

The new transit center replaces a former converted-church community center at the same downtown location.

It features covered bus shelters, public restrooms, break space for employees of Clallam Transit — which owns the building — and new meeting space for the Sequim City Council.