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Posted on 02/14/2019 1:03:51 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
OLYMPIA — A plan for raising billions of dollars to build new bridges, widen old highways and open up fish passages will get its first public review this week.
And, depending on the response, it could be its last.
Sen. Steve Hobbs, D-Lake Stevens, has drawn up a 10-year, $16.3 billion package of transportation improvements financed largely with a 6-cent hike in the gas tax and new fees on carbon emissions and development.
Hobbs, who is chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee, calculates that much money is needed to cover the cost of removing state-owned culverts to improve fish passages, rebuilding the U.S. 2 trestle, and building five electric-powered ferries. It also would pay Washington’s share of a new I-5 bridge across the Columbia River, widen Highway 522 between Maltby and the Snohomish River, and fulfill items on wish lists of lawmakers across the state.
On Thursday, he will devote the transportation committee’s entire two-hour meeting to accepting public comments. The meeting will begin at 3:30 p.m.
“There are a lot of needs out there. These things cost money,” he said Monday. “This is a chance to see if there is an appetite to do anything.”
If reactions are generally positive, he said he’s prepared to draft a bill and hold a hearing on it this session. If there is a lot of negativity, then he said it’s likely he’ll be done with it for now.
“There is no question we’ve got to do more in transportation infrastructure. I’m not thinking this is the year to do because there’s tax fatigue,” said Sen. Hans Zeiger, R-Puyallup, who serves on the transportation committee . . .
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Just call Barack Obama.
Democrats gave him $800 billion dollars in Stimulus money to rebuild “Job Ready” infrastructure.
So far nothing has been rebuilt so he must still have the $800 billion!
They promised us an extra lane on I-405. They converted an existing lane to a Good To Go toll lane instead. These people are liars and scoundrels.
Anyone from WA want to bet the first funds coming in will go to a bike path somewhere?
Open up, fishy!
Ten years from now the bridges will still be falling down.
Oh, look, more taxes!
Theiving, conniving, lying S.O.B politicians!
Is it too late to give this crazy State back to the British?
These fascists just don't learn.
"These fascists just don't learn. "
How dare you want to keep some of your hard earned money, when these ELECTED FASCISTS need it now & forever onward. /s
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