Coles Center for Transportation

WPC's Coles Center for Transportation researches and analyzes best practices for relieving traffic congestion, with specific focus on highway and transit projects and how tax dollars are spent. We support people getting to the places they want to go the way they want to get there, not the way government planners want them to get there.

HAPPENING NOW

Transportation and COVID-19: A State Guide to Policy and Priorities

BY MARIYA FROST, ROBERT POOLE^ JR, BARUCH FEIGENBAUM, RANDAL O’TOOLE, WENDELL COX, MARC SCRIBNER |

IN THE NEWS

Light rail expansion isn't what our region needs post-Covid

BY MARIYA FROST | PUGET SOUND BUSINESS JOURNAL

PRESS RELEASE

STUDY: WSDOT High-Speed Rail report riddled wit...

BY DAVID BOZE |

POLICY BRIEF

Washington State DOT’s Ultra High-Speed Ground ...

BY THOMAS RUBIN |

BLOG

Will the way you get to work go back to the way it was, post COVID?

BY MARK HARMSWORTH |

Coles Center for Transportation Issues:

Policy Analyst

Charles Prestrud

Coles Center for Transportation Director

email: cprestrud@washingtonpolicy.org

Phone: 206-937-9691

Charles Prestrud is director of the Coles Transportation Center. Charles brings more than thirty years of transportation experience to the position, including serving as WSDOT's planning manager for Ki Read More

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