A greener transportation package
Lawmakers approved a $17 billion transportation revenue package that will invest in the state’s highways, transit and bridges over the next 16 years.
Democratic leaders hailed the plan as the greenest transportation infrastructure package the state has ever approved, citing how it would put more than $3 billion toward transit, $1.2 billion toward bike and pedestrian improvements and additional money toward electrifying ferries and reducing carbon emissions.
“This is the shift we are trying to make in Washington state, to have less reliance on oil,” said House Speaker Laurie Jinkins, D-Tacoma, earlier this week.
Still, the majority of the package is slated to go to highway-related
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