OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — House Transportation leaders are unveiling their proposed supplemental transportation budget with $770 million in new spending, most of it pegged to the 520 bridge replacement project.
At a news conference Thursday, lawmakers said the proposed budget would make down payments on projects to ease congestion on I-5 while freeing up funds to buy a new 144-car ferry and restore the State Patrol’s auto theft program.
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