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Traffic crawls on northbound Interstate 5 on January 14. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)
The 10-year, $15 billion proposal relies on a carbon fee, six-cent gas tax increase and impact fees on developers as its largest sources of funding. (Ellen M. Banner / The Seattle Times)

Washington lawmakers consider $15 billion transportation package

The 10-year, $15 billion proposal relies on a carbon fee, six-cent gas tax increase and impact fees on developers as its largest sources of funding.

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Do you have a long commute? Here’s an illustrated look at one man’s Seattle-to-Skagit trek

Honggang Li installs a solar-powered device along the Burke-Gilman Trail in Lake Forest Park Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Li is part of University of Washington team that is testing an app-based system where bicyclists and motorists receive phone alerts when their paths converge at an intersection. 208428

Can an app help avoid bike-car collisions on the Burke-Gilman Trail? UW students are testing it

GirlTrek’s co-founder and COO Vanessa Garrison, left, at GirlTrek’s second annual #StressProtest in Estes Park, Colorado, a weekend of radical self-care for Black women that hosted more than 400 attendees.

Ask an expert: How can Seattle make neighborhoods more accessible to walking?

Friday, Sept. 28, 2018. Cory Crocker is a volunteer advocate for the U District community who has helped orchestrate a set of recommendations for how they envision mobility in the neighborhood working when the new light rail station opens in 2021. He’s standing with a growth model of the U-District on University Ave. 207958

Transfers at Husky Stadium were ‘horrendous,’ for some users. So the community devised a plan.

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Transit

Sound Transit CEO considers outside contractors to run Highway 520 buses

Sound Transit CEO Peter Rogoff is considering hiring private contractors. Labor leaders consider the move a possible threat to existing union jobs and privatization fights have flared around the country.

Roads

The Legislative Building is viewed through a light morning fog, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash., on opening day of the Washington Legislature. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) WATW101

Car tabs, bus-only lanes and other transportation bills we're watching in the 2019 Washington state Legislature

Getting Around

Pedestrians cross 4th Ave. in downtown Seattle around noontime April 30, 2018.

Seattle traffic deaths and injuries down slightly last year; most of the fatalities were pedestrians

Technology

Sound Transit CEO considers outside contractors to run Highway 520 buses

Sound Transit CEO Peter Rogoff is considering hiring private contractors. Labor leaders consider the move a possible threat to existing union jobs and privatization fights have flared around the country.