Posted by
Michael A. Novak on Saturday, April 21, 2007 3:33:59 PM
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That is a really big investment. I noticed how they stated to help Puget Sound and the Seattle area the most. What about Spokane and Eastern Washington? What about the North South Freeway that is being built? Why is it the lawmakers are always so concerned about Seattle. Especially when it is our representatives that we sent to Olympia to represent us. Notice that I said represent us. That is what they where elected to do.
Here is what I expect to see happen with that huge budget. I want to see the North South Freeway built. I do not expect to see a pot hole in the Spokane area at all. If these things fail to happen. Well then our current District 3 Representatives have failed us.
Washington lawmakers OK $7.5 billion road budget
Associated Press
Last updated: Saturday, April 21st, 2007 11:55:45 AM
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OLYMPIA, WASH. -- Washington lawmakers Saturday sent Governor Gregoire a freshly negotiated $7.5 billion highway budget plan.
The plan is designed to get hundreds of road projects back on schedule and cover huge cost overruns.
Just a day after it was first unveiled, the measure easily cleared the House 76-21. Friday it passed the Senate 46-3.
The two-year spending proposal identifies much of the money needed to build a multibillion-dollar new State Route 520 floating bridge across Lake Washington. It also provides $915 million dollars for initial work on a replacement for Seattle's waterfront Alaskan Way Viaduct.
Both are considered at risk of failing in a big earthquake.
Those two "mega-projects" are among the 432 road and bridge projects that would get a big boost from the new budget.
The plan covers nearly $2 billion in cost overruns that had threatened to derail or delay a number of projects.
The package includes about $3 billion in new construction over the next two years, about half in the congested and populous Puget Sound counties of King, Snohomish and Pierce. |