This morning was WSDOT Secretary Roger Millar's final meeting as a member of the Puget Sound Regional Council Executive Board. Millar had some comments about the four-county region's potential funding priorities around transportation. Here they are in a thread. - ThreadSky

typewriteralley.bsky.social • 85 days ago

This morning was WSDOT Secretary Roger Millar's final meeting as a member of the Puget Sound Regional Council Executive Board. Millar had some comments about the four-county region's potential funding priorities around transportation. Here they are in a thread.

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electroberts.bsky.social•85 days ago

We did amend PSRC’s legislative priorities to call for full funding for maintenance and preservation (from adequately fund) following Secretary Millar’s comments.

typewriteralley.bsky.social•85 days ago

"Everybody puts safety first, but it's a very, very, very small part of our $5.5 billion budget. And then everybody puts preservation and maintenance first on their list, and we're funded at less than 40% of what's needed to maintain the system we have today in a state of good repair," Millar said.

typewriteralley.bsky.social•85 days ago

"In the last 25 years, our economy has grown 40%. Our population has grown 35%. We have invested with the Nickel and the TPA and Connecting Washington and Move Ahead Washington billions and billions and billions of dollars on expanding our transportation system."

typewriteralley.bsky.social•85 days ago

"We've expanded our transpo system 2.5% in the last 25 yrs, which indicates to me that there maybe isn't a connection between economic prosperity and more highways, but I do believe there's a connection btwn economic prosperity, and having the facilities that we run our economy on be reliable."

typewriteralley.bsky.social•85 days ago

"I am concerned, absent investment in maintenance and preservation & safety & operations, our system will not be reliable."

typewriteralley.bsky.social•85 days ago

"All I need to do is have one bridge on I-90 between Idaho and Seattle, be load restricted, and every truck on that highway will no longer be able to be loaded 80,000 pounds. The same thing on I-5...and that is coming."

perturbedtoast.bsky.social•85 days ago

You can't cut a ribbon on a paving project. You can't tell your constituents that you funded sign and guardrail replacement. Maintenance and operations isn't sexy like a new interchange so it's not funded to nearly the level it should be.

likeluke.bsky.social•85 days ago

Not mincing words here. Yikes.

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