Jul 12, 2017 | Advocacy, Dispatch From Olympia, Transportation Choices
Last year, Transportation Choices Coalition led the winning Sound Transit 3 campaign to expand the Sound Transit light rail, commuter rail, and regional express system. This measure was strongly approved by 54% of the region after several years of extensive public...
Jul 3, 2017 | Advocacy, Dispatch From Olympia, Transportation Choices
Posted by Carla Chavez at Jul 03, 2017 07:31 PM | Permalink Late Friday evening the legislature passed a $43.7 billion operating budget for 2017-2019, barely meeting the constitutional June 30 deadline and narrowly avoiding a government shutdown. The biggest sticking...
Jul 2, 2017 | Transportation Choices
2017 has brought new uncertainty to the future of transit in our region — at the federal level, the new administration has been threatening deep cuts to previously planned transit funding, and at the state level, the Legislature tried repeatedly to stall...
Jun 5, 2017 | Advocacy, Dispatch From Olympia, Transportation Choices
Last Tuesday, the Washington State Legislature began its second 30-day special session. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, the first 30-day special session concluded without addressing two outstanding legislative items: agreeing to capital and operating budgets. The...
May 25, 2017 | Transportation Choices
The president released his full budget proposal earlier this week. This budget is an alarming statement against transit. The administration calls for the reduction of many funding programs, including the end of the TIGER grant program, and all funding for new transit...
