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Transportation Policy

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2009

    Obama's Transportation Chief to WSF: Suck It, I Rode the Bremerton Ferry

    Obama Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has seen the Bremerton ferry.Ha! There it is. After years of using the Bremerton-Seattle run as a glad rag and trying to rub it out of the system, the chickens have come home to roost. In case you haven't heard, of the $60 million bucks reserved for ferries ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2008

    Attractive Transit

    Obama Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has seen the Bremerton ferry.Ha! There it is. After years of using the Bremerton-Seattle run as a glad rag and trying to rub it out of the system, the chickens have come home to roost. In case you haven't heard, of the $60 million bucks reserved for ferries ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2007

    Feds Help WSDOT Near Toll Goal

    Obama Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has seen the Bremerton ferry.Ha! There it is. After years of using the Bremerton-Seattle run as a glad rag and trying to rub it out of the system, the chickens have come home to roost. In case you haven't heard, of the $60 million bucks reserved for ferries ... More >>

  • News

    August 1, 2007

    Lack of Employees, Not Space, Is Overcrowding State Prisons

    DOC can't fill positions to open the $39 million facility in Monroe.

  • News

    April 19, 2006

    A Viaduct Option Is Buried

    The state says there's no money for less capacity on a surface roadway.

  • News

    December 8, 2004

    Gridlock Politics

    Party bickering, the GOP antitax crusade, and Seattle arrogance stand in the way of replacing the dangerous Alaskan Way Viaduct and the aging 520 bridge.

  • News

    July 2, 2003

    Tough Rail Road

    Does Sound Transit Executive Director Joni Earl have the agency on track?

  • News

    December 25, 2002

    The Viaduct on the Level

    Sure, you could bury it. You could replace it with another elevated freeway. But why not just rebuild it at ground level? It's the cheapest option.

  • News

    September 11, 2002

    Twice-Tolled Tales

    Sure, you could bury it. You could replace it with another elevated freeway. But why not just rebuild it at ground level? It's the cheapest option.

  • Film

    July 26, 2000

    Site under construction

    Sure, you could bury it. You could replace it with another elevated freeway. But why not just rebuild it at ground level? It's the cheapest option.

  • News

    September 2, 1998

    A bridge too far

    Toll phobia and rural preservation block a cleaner, cheaper way to operate highways.

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