KUOW radio interviewed Mark Hallenbeck to report on how mobile apps are creating diversion traffic on neighborhood streets. This story is exactly what is happening due to the #405ETL. WSDOT doesn’t measure traffic on these neighborhood streets; only on the…

The revitalization of downtown Bothell is wonderful in many ways. Unfortunately, the new multi-way boulevard may not be one of them. When it comes to transportation, I consider myself fairly savvy. (I did figure out how the I-405 Express Toll…

Here is an email I received recently explaining yet another problem with the GoodToGo website.  There have been so many that I really haven’t been posting them, but we need to be measuring these to identify just how widespread the…

Ethics is not a partisan issue.  The following letter was presented to the chairs of the Senate Law and Justice Committee and the Senate Transportation Committee as an action to begin an investigation into the egregious violations and alleged violations…

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Tomorrow, Wednesday 4/5/2017, There will be two budget amendments presented in the state legislature to stop the 405 toll lanes from continuing. One is immediate, the other is at the end of the two year trial which is this September.…

CORRECTION TO THE PREVIOUS POST: At the end of the presentation of this bill for a hearing, Committee Chair Judy Clibborn explained that the purpose of this bill is NOT HB 2071 which was to make the toll lanes on…

CORRECTION TO THIS POST: At the end of the presentation of this bill for a hearing, Committee Chair Judy Clibborn explained that the purpose of this bill is NOT HB 2071 which was to make the toll lanes on SR167…

The Florida Senate Transportation Committee today unanimously passed bill SB250 out of the committee calling for the elimination of all express toll lanes in the state of Florida and preventing any new ones from being built. This is profound because…

The City of San Francisco is suing Hertz Car Rental over its predatory methods of billing customers for driving on tolled roads.  (read the article) But car rental companies are doing the same thing in Washington and it isn’t just…