While the new $13 billion budget does put $700 million a year into maintenance, Millar said that's about $300 million less than his agency needs.
Washington State Patrol vehicles sit parked on Interstate 90 where the highway has been temporarily closed on January 8, 2022 in North Bend, Washington.
We are on a glide path to failure. That’s the word from Roger Millar, the head of the Washington Department of Transportation said after the governor signed the transportation budget earlier this year. A budget that once again focused on shiny new things instead of taking care of and preserving what we already have.that the legislature is not funding the maintenance and preservation of our roads as it should.
“We have more than 1,000 specific directions on how to spend the transportation dollars, and we cannot move funding, she told the commission. “If we have a construction project run under, we cannot move that to fund a preservation project that is sorely needed.”And then Scarton dropped this bombshell, something I’m not sure I’ve ever heard out of Olympia before.
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