Tag: 2022 legislature
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Walk, bike and transit funding makes it through adjusted state transportation package
Nearly all of the funding for walking, biking and transit projects in the state Democrats’ Move Ahead Washington funding package has made it through to the latest version of the bill. The House and Senate both voted Thursday to approve the updated package shortly before the end of the 2022 state legislative session. The package…
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Senate transportation bill now moving through the House includes $1.3 billion for walking and biking safety
As soon as Washington State legislators released their Move Ahead Washington transportation funding proposal earlier this month, it drew a wave of enthusiastic support from transportation organizations across the state. Lee Lambert, Executive Director of Washington Bikes, called the investments in walking and biking “unprecedented.” And he’s right. The 16-year, $16 billion “Move Ahead Washington”…
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WA Transportation Secretary: Further freeway expansion is ‘a dead end’
Washington Transportation Secretary Roger Millar argued against further highway expansion during his State of Transportation presentation to the House Transportation Committee this week. Instead, he argued for “a resilient response” to the state’s major challenges, including climate change, inequitable traffic impacts and increasing traffic injuries and deaths. “We are a Target Zero state, and we’re…
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WA Bikes: ‘There’s opportunity abound’ in short 60-day state legislative session
State legislators seemed determined to pass a major transportation funding bill during the 2021 session, but the focus on highway spending and backwards ideas like a tax on bicycles ultimately helped stall the effort until the session ran out of time. There was even talk of a special session to get the effort passed, but…
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