by SRTC Staff | May 11, 2020 | Blog, Uncategorized |
As the stay-at-home order has been followed throughout the state, people are driving less which means less gasoline has purchased and subsequently less gas tax collected. That gas tax pays for a lot of transportation projects. The Spokesman Review reports that WSDOT...
by SRTC Staff | Apr 10, 2019 | Blog, Uncategorized |
A $10 billion transportation package of spending was passed by the Washington Legislature yesterday. Of that, approximately $200 million is headed to the Spokane area for a variety of projects. The full story in the Spokesman Review can be found at the link: Spokane...
by SRTC Staff | Apr 2, 2019 | Blog, Uncategorized |
The Washington State House of Representatives lawmakers released a proposed transportation plan last week totaling $9.9 billion in spending. A recent article in The Olympian reports that finding the funds remains one of the biggest challenges and the State Senate is...
by SRTC Staff | Jul 20, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Governor Inslee signs the transportationfunding 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...
by SRTC Staff | Jul 16, 2015 | Uncategorized |
Washington governor Jay Inslee signed a package of transportation bills into law yesterday that includes an 11.9 cent gasoline tax increase and about $16 billion worth of projects around the state. The package took nearly three years of negotiations, compromises,...
