Our online petition has 31,212 signatures at the moment. We have also received another 296 signatures in the mail using our paper petition. But what exactly does this represent?  A fair question that our government leadership should be asking when…

Here is a list of the I-405 toll items that were included in the Transportation Budget by the Washington State Legislature today: Funding to identify and prioritize projects that will help reduce congestion and provide added capacity on the I-405…

Yesterday I made another drive to Olympia to try to make last-minute progress on eliminating the 405ETL before the legislative session ends next week.  Senator Rosemary McAuliffe and Senator Marko Liias worked with me to draft a bill that requires…

If you consider yourself an environmentalist, you should be pissed. Carpool lanes are incredibly popular in Puget Sound. So much so that WSDOT calls them a “failure”.  What?! Their response was to kick out 85% – 95% of the carpools…

Slide deck with many facts around the 405ETL: https://stop405tolls.org/2016/02/18/slide-presentation-to-transportation-committee/ Analysis of 2 person vs. 3+ person carpools: https://stop405tolls.org/2015/12/16/an-analysis-of-2-person-vs-3person-carpools-in-trip-reduction/ Proof the 405ETL is not the right solution: https://stop405tolls.org/2015/12/07/wsdot-ignores-their-own-recommendation-for-hov-follows-miamis-proven-failed-model/ Quick list of points: https://stop405tolls.org/2016/01/23/top-10-reasons-the-405etl-are-a-fail/ Texas A&M study on Impact of HOT lanes:…

31,000 petition signers demanded it. Bills in the House and Senate demanded it. A team of legislators published a letter to WSTC demanding it. The Governor demanded it. Finally we’re getting it! (at least in part) The past 2 days…