Slowly diminishing returns
The $16.8 billion transportation package proposal quickly making its way through the state Legislature consists of two parts. One portion allocates $5.4 billion from the brand new carbon tax to pedestrian, bicycling and transit projects. Included is free transit for people 18 and under and some safe routes to school projects.
On the highway and ferry side, budget writers propose spending $11.4 billion, most of which goes to replace fish culverts, and road maintenance and expansion projects. These improvements would be paid for by money from the federal government, a fuel export tax, an increase in license plate fees and a one-time $2 billion infusion from the
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