Posted by Hester Serebrin at Jul 19, 2017 09:16 PM | Permalink The following is a guest post from our new summer intern, Dayanne: Hello, my name is Dayanne Carranza and I will be joining Transportation Choices Coalition (TCC) this summer as an intern. Throughout my...
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...
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...
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 portions of...
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...
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...
The Washington State legislature continues in overtime with at least one 30-day special session for lawmakers to find agreement on a capital and operating budget. As reported in our last Dispatch, the legislature passed the 2017-2019 transportation budget just before...
It's over. Sort of. The 2017 Washington State legislative session ended Sunday and Special Session began on Monday. And while Sound Transit and ST3 was the focus of debate, we are happy to report that late last week the House and Senate agreed on a final 2017 – 2019...
Transportation Choices' statement on House Bill 2201 On Monday, the House Transportation Committee voted to advance House Bill 2201. This bill would require Sound Transit to reimburse taxpayers for a portion of the Motor Vehicle Excise Tax (MVET) that voters approved...
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