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Eastside Transportation News & Updates
July 27th, 2010 at 7:30am - Professor Steve Muench, Assistant Professor, UW Civil and Environmental Engineering, will speak on Greenroads,
a sustainability "rating system."
Come hear how road projects are solving environmental problems.
Details...
June 2010 -
Bill Bryant, President of the Commission of the Port of Seattle spoke at our June meeting
about freight mobility in our region and the impact that traffic congestion
on I-405 and I-90 has on freight access to the Port and our regional economy. The Port is providing funding for a portion of the Alaska Way Viaduct replacement project and several other major land transportation issues.
January 2010 -
ETA Members testify on
HB 2941 - I-405 Express Toll Lanes in front of the Transportation Committee. Learn more on the
WSDOT Eastide Corridor Tolling website.
Watch the testimony on our What's New page.
January 2010 -
The Washington Policy Center
launches a new ad to
promote their work on solutions for
traffic relief.
ETA’s MissionETA believes there are clear transportation choices that will allow us to
go where we want to go, how we want to go, and when we want to go. We are a
private-sector group whose membership includes concerned citizens, business
representatives and transportation professionals who are dedicated to making
these choices happen.
Our goal is to bring objectivity and simplification to the political
decision-making process to define, select, fund and implement transportation
projects. We support policies that encourage each mode of transportation to
operate efficiently and economically to meet growing demands.
Rather than using costly transportation projects to try to change or
influence human behavior, we want to develop a transportation system that
supports increased efficiency, productivity and quality of life.
Finally, ETA recognizes that state funding must be uniform and is limited
by the economies of rural areas. We believe, therefore, that state dollars
must be supplemented by regional funding to meet the growth demands of the
three-county region of King, Pierce, and Snohomish.
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