Transportation
Because being there is what's most important, WPC's Center for Transportation researches and analyzes the best practices for relieving traffic congestion by recapturing a vision of a system based on freedom of movement.
Publications
A Roadmap for Mobility: Recommendations On a Responsible Transportation Funding Plan for Washington State
- Taxes and fees paid by drivers should not subsidize other modes of transportation
- Do not create a state-level tax or fee to fund local transit agencies
- Stop diverting existing transportation taxes and fees for non-highway purposes
- Expand capacity, fix chokepoints and do not restrict new resources to just maintaining the existing system
- Reduce unnatural cost drivers that make transportation projects more expensive
Region's Transportation and Land-Use Policies Have Little Effect On Traffic Congestion
The Seattle Times published this column on May, 2012.
Voters Deserve the Light Rail Vote They Were Promised
The Columbian published this column on April 29, 2012.
If anyone had any doubt why light rail to Vancouver is so controversial, look no further than what the city of Vancouver tried to do.
WPC's Recommendations on the State's 2012 Transportation Tax Package, Part V
This is the final part of a five-part series of Legislative Memos that Washington Policy Center offers for lawmakers to consider before preparing a statewide transportation tax increase in 2012. The five recommendations are:
WPC's Recommendations on the State's 2012 Transportation Tax Package, Part IV
This is part four of a five-part series of Legislative Memos that Washington Policy Center offers for lawmakers to consider before preparing a statewide transportation tax increase in 2012. The five recommendations are:
WPC’s Recommendations on the State’s 2012 Transportation Tax Package, Part III
This is part three of a five-part series of Legislative Memos that Washington Policy Center offers for lawmakers to consider before preparing a statewide transportation tax increase in 2012. The five recommendations are:
Time to Make Sound Transit Officials Accountable through a Directly Elected Board of Directors
Do you know who runs Sound Transit?
Sound Transit officials spend about $1 million per day in public money, yet their leadership is not accountable to the public because they are not directly elected to their positions. They are appointed.
Sound Transit is led by an 18-member board of directors. They include local and state officials and, with the exception of the Washington State Department of Transportation Secretary, they are all elected to offices from other local governments like cities and counties.
WPC’s Recommendations on the State’s 2012 Transportation Tax Package, Part II
This is part two of a five-part series of Legislative Memos that Washington Policy Center offers for lawmakers to consider before preparing a statewide transportation tax increase in 2012. The five recommendations are:
WPC’s Recommendations on the State’s 2012 Transportation Tax Package, Part I
This is part one of a five-part series of Legislative Memos that Washington Policy Center offers for lawmakers to consider before preparing a statewide transportation tax increase in 2012. The five recommendations are:
Personal Car Sharing
What if a stupendous business opportunity were hiding in plain sight? What if this opportunity would bring environmental and social dividends? And what if a simple legal change would unleash it?
Personal car sharing is just that: a chance to trim emissions and fuel costs, while generating profit for car owners and giving everyone a new way to save money. Only one legal barrier—a change to insurance regulations—stands in the way.
What Is It
