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The ETA Board recently approved Vic Bishop's informative "What you need to know about traffic" white paper. In it, he explains, in plain english, how to tackle one of the biggest issues facing residents and businesses - traffic congestion. Bishop covers transit mode shares, the environment, transportation funding, maintenance/preservation and how elected and public officials can work to solve this vital issue that threatens our quality of life on the Eastside. You can read hi

Help save Main Street by contacting the Bellevue Transportation Commission and City Council immediately at kmcdonald@bellevuewa.gov and council@bellevuewa.gov to preserve our mobility downtown! SIGN OUR PETITION TO IMPROVE MOBILITY DOWNTOWN! 10 Key Takeaways: Traffic is rated as the #1 “Biggest Problem Facing Bellevue,” per the City’s official Budget Survey, with respondents rating it three times higher than the #2 problem, housing affordability. The official transportation p

Washington Policy Center, a free-market think tank based in Seattle, just released their blog urging extreme caution in bonding I-405 and Gateway tolls. Their blog follows, but for the page please visit: https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/toll-bill-would-set-us-up-for-gridlock-and-debt-for-decades Toll bill would set us up for gridlock and debt for decades By MARIYA FROST Love them or hate them (and most people hate them), the toll lanes are certainly taking

Planners from the Puget Sound Regional Council - the four-county Metropolitan Planning Organization and Regional Transportation Planning Organization – have released their draft Vision 2050 document for public comment. The public, expected to read the 227-page plan and the following 217-page appendices, has until April 29 to provide commentary. However, the plan’s transportation program has much to be desired. They include three separate scenarios. They call one of those scen

Last week, Senate Transportation Committee Chair Steve Hobbs (D-Lake Stevens) released his transportation proposal to fund transportation projects across Washington state. The ETA provided public comment, with Chair Emeritus Vic Bishop stating that the proposal falls short, citing the $15 billion needed on I-405 per PSRC’s Regional Transportation Plan. Bishop noted that ETA has spent 30 years working on improving I-405. His sobering analysis states that we are one-third of th

The Eastside Transportation Association recently released our 2019 Legislative Objectives. These objectives support moving people, cars, freight, buses and emergency vehicles faster and more efficiently through targeted investments in I-405 and other highways that are vital to the Puget Sound Region and Washington state. Read more here.

It's no surprise, traffic congestion is getting worse. So bad in fact, that Bellevue residents ranked traffic number one of the “Top Five Mentioned Biggest Problems Facing Bellevue” in the City’s biennial budget survey. Though overall satisfaction in city government is high, the statistically-valid survey results show that traffic is mentioned nearly at a three-to-one clip over the next biggest problem, housing affordability. It’s not just residents that are fed up with traff

ETA Boardmember David Habelwitz talks with the New York Times about his insight into the social division created by toll lanes like the ones on I-405: "I was recently contacted by Nelson Schwartz, a reporter from the New York Times. He is doing a series of articles: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/business/economy/velvet-rope-economy.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/insider/velvet-rope-economy-series.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/business/economy/high-end-

The James W. MacIsaac Research Committee examines the hard data and presents the facts.  Link to our Documents Archive and access 20 years’ worth of unbiased, impartial research on topics like transit reliability, regional tolling, congestion, and freeway expansion and modernization.  Because ETA receives no funding from any government entity (unlike other regional and Statewide organizations), we can present the truth without worry of losing our funding or access to politici

ETA is committed to mobility along the busy and critical I-405 corridor, the lifeline of Eastside communities.  Congestion on I-405 costs time, money, and lives and it impacts our economic vitality.  We call on WSDOT to immediately prioritize congestion relief along I-405 by constructing additional lanes between interchanges and making additional changes to the Express Lanes.  We demand that WSDOT add TWO additional general purpose lanes in each direction between Renton and B

Our Puget Sound region has all of the tools necessary to revolutionize mobility. With depth in cloud computing, a firm grasp on control systems, and world-class logistics and manufacturing capabilities, we can lead the way in vehicle automation, automated and autonomous vehicle deployment, and managing the safest transport system in the world.  In the coming months, ETA will introduce you to the key players in the region who are making this happen and how their work will redu