Inslee Considering Fuel Standard that Could Jeopardize Biking, Transit and Walking Funding
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Governor Inslee signs the transportation
funding bill last week |
There are a lot of people unhappy with Governor Jay Inslee tonight. On Friday, Inslee told the folks at Washington Bikes, a group that works for better laws and more funding to grow bicycling statewide, that he is considering
implementing a low carbon fuel standard.
As you may remember, the recently-passed Washington State transportation revenue package includes what's referred to as a "poison pill" that says if
the Governor signs an executive order to implement a low carbon fuel standard,
all funds generated for the multimodal account will revert to the
"Connecting Washington" account. The Connecting Washington account is basically the funding bucket for roads.
Put into perspective, this means that over $400 million in the transportation package to go to transit, walking and bicycling projects and programs would be gone.
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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