Highway preservation at center of new WA transportation budget

By: Jerry Cornfield

Outlets: Washington State Standard

Published: April 1, 2026

Words: 762

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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Gov. Bob Ferguson on Tuesday signed a spending plan for the state transportation system that he said bolsters preservation of highways and will “deliver projects that Washingtonians rely on to get to where they need to go.”

The $16.6 billion supplemental budget expends about $1.2 billion more than the two-year transportation spending blueprint lawmakers approved last year. Under another bill, Washington will do more borrowing to cover added transportation spending.

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