We’re pretty excited about the legislature’s new transportation package. Here are 12 highlights when it comes to investments in transit and infrastructure for safer biking, rolling, and walking.
Dispatch From Olympia
In Olympia we work with state legislative champions to pass policies and protect and grow investments for transit, walking and biking across the state. We bring together environmental, social justice and health partners to ensure policies are holistic and equitable. Major priorities include growing the multimodal account, supporting transit agencies and ensuring an equity lens is used for transportation policy development.
24 organizations and campaigns call on legislators to “deeply invest in transit service and operations”
Today TCC joined 23 allied organizations in sending a letter to state legislators calling for a transformative transportation package.
We’re done waiting: Tell legislators to pass a transportation package
Washington’s 2022 legislative session is now under way. Tell your legislators to pass a transformative transportation package before it ends.
The 2022 legislative session starts next week. Here’s what we’ll be following.
A transformative transportation package, service expansions, changing jaywalking laws, and other priorities for the 60-day session.
Statement on the confirmation of Washington State Senator Marko Liias as Transportation Committee Chair
Earlier today members of the Senate Transportation Committee announced that Senator Marko Liias will serve as the next chair of the committee. Alex Hudson, Executive Director of Transportation Choices Coalition, expressed the following response.
Dispatch from Olympia: Groundwork laid for better transportation package as first ever remote sessions comes to a close
The legislature concluded its historic all-remote session Sunday, April 25. Though we did not see a new transportation package pass the finish line, a new statewide cap-and-trade system will bring in revenue for transportation strategies that reduce carbon emissions,...
Dispatch from Olympia: Forward Washington needs work, session ends Sunday
Time is running out to pass a clean and just transportation package.
Dispatch from Olympia: Climate Bills Move Forward, Opening Path for Transportation
Cutoff for bills to pass the opposite chamber is Sunday, April 11, meaning there are just two weeks left in the regular legislative session! With major pieces of climate legislation progressing through the process, there is a viable path forward for a transportation...
Dispatch from Olympia: The Race is on for Transportation Investments
This is the final sprint. The House bill dropped last week, and the Senate’s will be released today. With just three weeks left of the regular 2021 legislative session, every day, every hearing, and every conversation to advance a new transportation package counts....

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