House Democrats are rolling out their transportation package right now. Relies on carbon fee, but where will it invest? #ClimateAction and highway expansion are incompatible. #CarCulture
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Here’s the spending breakdown.
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A hefty chunk of money is focused on highway projects to facilitate more sprawl and pollution.
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Here's the expansion piece...
$6.7 billion in new road projects.
$1 billion for Columbia River Crossing 2.0
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Here's on Columbia Crossing Project replacing the I-5 bridge and beefing up freeway interchanges. It's a $3 billion+ project legislators hope will get big time federal $ via their "skin in the game." #ClimateDelay
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Rep. Wylie (D-Vancouver) seemed ambivalent about light rail on the bridge to Portland, and pointed to bus rapid transit as an alternative. #CarCulture
Rep. Ricelli (D-Spokane) said they sought to put maintenance before expansion, pointing to deterioration of state roads. He said indexing the gas tax could have avoided this situation. (Note: That only works if extra revenue actually goes to maintenance not more expansion).
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