September 18, 2013

74 residents testify at Senate’s first transportation feedback forum held in Bellevue

Hundreds of Washington citizens turned out to share their thoughts and ideas on state transportation issues at Stevenson Elementary School in Bellevue Tuesday evening. Senate Transportation Committee co-chairs, Sen. Curtis King, R-Yakima, and Sen. Tracey Eide, D-Federal Way, heard from 74 transit advocates, business representatives and daily commuters during the...
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September 11, 2013

King adds three stops to Senate’s transportation feedback tour

More people in Washington will have a chance to be heard now that Sen. Curtis King, R-Yakima, has announced the addition of three locations to the Senate’s statewide transportation feedback tour. The additional stops in Seattle, Tri-Cities and Bellingham stem from an overwhelming public response to a series of public...
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August 28, 2013

Dates set for bipartisan statewide transportation forums

Senate Transportation Committee co-chairs Sen. Curtis King, R-Yakima, and Sen. Tracey Eide, D-Federal Way, today announced the dates and cities that will be included in a statewide listening tour aimed at gathering input from Washington residents on building a new package of transportation projects. Beginning on Sept. 17 in Bellevue,...
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August 08, 2013

King announces listening tour to discuss MCC reform ideas

Sen. Curtis King, R-Yakima, announced today that he’s delivered a letter to Washington State Department of Transportation Secretary Lynn Peterson, requesting her agency’s cooperation in coordinating a series of public meetings around the state. King, who serves as co-chair of the Senate Transportation Committee, said he and his colleagues in...
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June 30, 2013

King, MCC drive the discussion on transportation reform

With the end of the 2013 regular and two special sessions now in the rear-view mirror, members of the Washington State Senate Majority Coalition Caucus have their sights set firmly on reforming the state’s transportation system. Listen to Senator Curtis King, R-Yakima, explain why these reforms are necessary, what they...
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April 19, 2013

Keeping Washington moving forward, Senate passes transpo budget

Sen. Curtis King, R-Yakima, and co-chair of the Senate Transportation Committee, today expressed his thanks and gratitude to members of the Senate and its staff after the unanimous passage of the Senate’s 2013-15 transportation budget proposal. King, along with co-chair Sen. Tracey Eide, D-Federal Way, and fellow budget writers Sen....
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April 19, 2013

Sen. King talks transportation on TVW

Does the state need new transportation taxes? TVW Host Austin Jenkins of Inside Olympia talks with Senate Transportation Co-Chair Curtis King, R-Yakima, about transportation issues, including revenue, the Columbia River Crossing project, and more.
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April 03, 2013

Bipartisan Senate committee unveils 2013-15 transportation budget

Making good on promises to continue a tradition of cooperation, leaders of the Washington State Senate Transportation Committee today proposed a bipartisan transportation budget that would spend $8.7 billion in 2013-15: $5.3 billion in capital construction spending and $3.4 billion for operating costs and debt service payments. The proposal would...
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March 28, 2013

Senate transportation budget to be released soon

This session, I am co-chair of the Senate Transportation Committee, and we’re responsible for crafting a state transportation budget. Historically, the transportation committee has been one of the more (if not the most) bipartisan, cooperative committees in the Legislature, and this session has been no different. The other co-chair, Democrat...
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