Transportation Advocacy Day

Transportation Choices Coalition is mostly a Central Puget Sound organization, but lobbies for state legislation that will benefit all cities and counties.

Details & sign-up for Transportation Advocacy Day, Jan. 28th.

Coalition Priorities:

Transit Funding to Keep Washington Moving
Large and small transit agencies across the state are facing drastic budget shortfalls due to their dependence on sales taxes.  If new, sustainable revenue is not identified in the next two years, agencies serving Anacortes, Walla Walla and everywhere between will be forced to make drastic cuts to their service, cuts that will hinder our region’s economic recovery, clog our roads, prevent us from reducing greenhouse gas emissions and leave transit riders abandoned on the side of the road.

Complete Streets for Healthy Communities
Complete Streets are crucial components for creating healthy, walkable, and bike-friendly communities in Washington State. We want to create a framework for a grant program for complete streets projects in Washington’s cities to incentivize and reward complete streets projects statewide.

Incentives to Create Transit Oriented Communities
Creating compact, walkable transit oriented communities is crucial to meeting the State’s greenhouse gas emissions goals, supporting transit, and encouraging economic development.

Ensure that Sound Transit’s Projects are Essential Public Facilities under the Growth Management Act (GMA)
In 2008 the voters of the Central Puget Sound overwhelmingly passed Sound Transit 2, a plan to build out a 21st Century regional network of light rail, commuter rail and express buses.  Transportation Choices Coalition supports Sound Transit’s efforts to further clarify the status of these projects under GMA in order to streamline their permitting process and deliver them more rapidly to Central Puget Sound voters.

Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance

Opening the doors to creating a pay-as-you-drive insurance program in Washington is a crucial component to reducing emissions in the transportation sector.  Transportation Choices Coalition supports measures to promote Washington as a market for an insurance system that allows consumers to opt into a pay-per-mile model.

Alaskan Way Viaduct, 520 Bridge Replacement and I-90 Two Way HOV