Last Chance for Washington Residents to Weigh in on 2020-2023 Drafted Transportation Improvement Program

Washington State Department of Transportation has worked with local, metropolitan and regional agencies on the drafted 2020-2023 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program to prioritize transportation improvement projects. The final opportunity to submit input on the multimodal transportation projects is from November 18 until December 17 at 5 p.m.

"This process started at the local agency level. Local agencies built their six year transportation program and there was a chance for the public to comment then," said Nancy Huntley, local programs engineer.

The projects submitted locally, especially ones regionally significant or using federal highway or federal transit funding, were then pushed to the metropolitan or regional planning level. Organizations on this level also prepared a six year transportation program and folks had a public comment period.

"So this is a compilation of all of those," said Huntley. "If people didn't get to see them at that level, now they see them at the statewide level."

WSDOT will send any comments it receives to the respective local agency, metropolitan or regional planning organization for their consideration. Written comments can be sent to: Nancy Huntley, WSDOT, P.O. Box 47390, Olympia, WA 98504-7390, email: Huntlen@wsdot.wa.gov, or by fax at 360-705-6822.