Wednesday, May 15th, 8:00am - The May meeting will be a discussion by the President of INRIX on: Tolling impacts of Diverted traffic on Alternative Routes. Read more.

ETA News

Public Policy Changes Making Things Worse, not Better (pdf), April 8, 2013
Report by Jim Horn
"For years the State of Washington has been able to build new bridges and pay for them by charging users of the new bridge a toll to pay off the bonds used to finance the new roadway. Now we seem to no longer be able to do this with the replacement of the SR 520 Bridge. Why are we suddenly having this problem? What has changed?" Read more.

ETA's I-90 Tolling Comment Letter (pdf), February 22, 2013.
"Tolling of I-90 is a big deal. It raises major issues of traffic impact on this and other highways, equity, economics and relationships to other plans including the I-405 Master Plan." Read more.

ETA Comment Letter on Transportation Funding (pdf), February 11, 2013.
"Like the Washington Roundtable, we strongly support added funding for transporta-tion. Our highway system has not kept up the personal travel demands of a growing population nor with freight demands of an expanding economy." Read more.

“Transportation Package Needed Now” (external link) January 4, 2013 Op-Ed by Dick Paylor in the Bellevue Reporter  .pdf version

See our latest reports:
The War on Cars		Raising revenues the right way.		What you need to know about HOT Lanes

The Washington Roundtable Transportation Proposal (pdf)- for funding our state's transportation network to support a 21st century economy. Recommendations to the legislature include a 10-year transportation investment package that funds critical maintenance, operations and preservation needs as well as critical corridor improvements via a value based vehicle license fee (.6% rate), a gross weight fee on trucks over 12,000 pounds (15% rate) and a nine cent fuel tax increase (five cents in 2014, four cents in 2015).

We Should Stop Waging a War on Cars, Op-ed by Bruce Nurse, November 17, 2012 (external link to Seattle Times.

The Future of Roads, Automobiles, and Public Transit - presentation by John Niles from the June ETA meeting is now available online. (June 2012)

ETA Issues Press Release Appealing I-90 Ruling to the State Supreme Court , May 2012 (pdf)

Reports published by ETA:

HOT Lanes on SR167 - A Financial & Operational Failure (pdf)

ETA Guiding Principles for Funding of Highway Transportation Systems (pdf)