Governor Calls for New Funding For Transportation Projects In State of the State Address
In his State of the State address yesterday, Gov. Jay Inslee called for the Legislature to pass a package of major transportation projects. He also said that would require some sort of new tax to pay for them.
For the last two years, the Democratic-controlled House has approved such a plan, but Senate Republicans have killed the plans.
Republican response to yesterday's speech was that the governor's plan doesn’t do enough to reform large transportation projects that have been plagued with problems, like the stalled tunneling operation under Seattle to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
Here's the Spokesman-Review's summary of the State of the State address.
About SRTC
SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.
SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.
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