It’s been years and millions of dollars in the making, but tolls on State Route 520 began Thursday morning.
The Sound Transit Board on Thursday endorsed an agreement with the City of Bellevue to enable the East Link light rail project to serve downtown Bellevue via a tunnel.
Tolling on State Route 520 across Lake Washington will start in December, the Washington State Department of Transportation announced last week.
People want to keep districts from being split by bodies of water and mountains. They want to see a new 10th Congressional District on the Eastside, or the south Puget Sound. Or anywhere but the Puget Sound area.
Two sets of transportation bills in the state Legislature that would have significant effects on Eastside traffic are moving closer…
Fresh off a tense and painful election season, the wheels are already in motion for many local officials in 2011, including King County Councilwoman Jane Hague, who will seek another term as the 6th district (Kirkland, Bellevue, Redmond, Mercer Island) representative.
State Transportation Commission agrees on $3.50 peak toll rates for SR-520
Bellevue-based Puget Sound Energy was fined more than $100,000 on Tuesday for numerous violations in handling accounts, primarily of low-income customers who were disconnected from service due to nonpayment.
The $104,300 penalty handed down from the state’s Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) covered 1,043 violations of consumer protection rules, 965 of which were for failing to correctly apply the state’s “refusal of service rule.”
More than 100 people converged on Bellevue City Hall last week to urge the King County Council to restore funding to the human services element of the 2011 county budget.
A large portion of the cuts to the county budget involves significantly reducing funding to human services groups.
A panel of national experts told local leaders on Thursday that a clear philosophy needs to emerge for tolling in the Interstate 405 corridor that balances the needs to finance a multi-billion project while also delivering the performance and congestion relief to make it worth the money.
King County residents will see a drop of nearly 10 percent in criminal defense departments (courts, police, etc.), unless they approve a .2 percent sales tax increase this election season.
The proposal is the centerpiece of County Executive Dow Constantine’s budget, which seeks to make up a shortfall of more than $60 million through department efficiency improvements and payroll savings.
Constantine outlined his program to an editorial board of Reporter Newspapers editors on Tuesday.
