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Regional Transportation Commission RTC Regional Transportation Commission Regional Transportation Commission Final Report www.psrtc.wa.gov December 31, 2006 The Honorable Christine Gregoire Office of the Governor PO Box 40002 Olympia, WA 98504-0002 The Honorable Members Washington State Senate PO Box 40482 Olympia, WA 98504-0482 The Honorable Members Washington State House of Representatives PO Box 40600 Olympia, WA 98504-0600 Dear Governor Gregoire Senators, and Representatives: We are pleased to present the report of the Regional Transportation Commission, which you appointed last June. Our charge was to “to develop a proposal for a regional transportation governing entity more directly accountable to the public, and to develop a comprehensive regional transportation finance plan for the citizens of the Puget Sound metropolitan region.” Acting collaboratively as a group of citizens from diverse localities and backgrounds, we came together, analyzed the situation and in this report give you our conclusions and recommendations. Our report is intended to provide guidance to the leaders of the state on the most important issue facing the central Puget Sound region. As a recent survey of residents notes, traffic and transportation have been named as the top issues facing the region. The entire central Puget Sound community has recognized the importance of transportation improvements and has acted recently to support funding for transportation, particularly with the defeat last year of Initiative 912 and the recent passage of local initiatives and levies. These campaigns illustrated the strength of what the combined effort of business, labor, environmental and transportation agencies can accomplish. We hope that shared commitment continues, producing broad support for the upcoming Regional Transportation Investment District– Sound Transit 2 joint ballot proposal in November 2007 and for our recommendations on regional governance. CONCLUSIONS Our nine-chapter report culminates a journey through the intricacies and challenges in transportation. We conclude that: Our current system of transportation governance delivers inadequate results and will need fundamental systemic change to meet our region’s transportation needs in the future. At this point there is no single agency in the region with the ability to meet the overall transportation needs of the region. In order to address regional needs, the system has to be structurally “re-knit” at the regional level. We base this conclusion on what we know about the current system and what we know our future needs will be. Transportation represents an enormous financial challenge to the region. While the numbers changed even during our brief six months tenure, there is a clear shortfall in funding for needed transportation projects. We believe there are three interrelated strategies that need to be implemented: • Employ user fees (tolls, fares, parking charges) to manage demand for transportation with user fees —these should reduce demand and thus the amount of construction that must be funded. • Raise more money from a combination of tax increases and user fees. • Prioritize projects throughout the region and across modes so that the most important projects get built. The challenge with prioritizing is establishing who is in charge. Today there are 128 agencies that manage aspects of transportation in the four-county region. If 128 parties are theoretically in charge of aspects of a problem, we concluded that in fact no one is really in charge. We have recommended that the Legislature create a new 15-member Puget Sound Regional Transportation Commission (PSRTC) that has authority and responsibility for planning, prioritizing and funding all modes of regional transportation for the four-county area. We believe that that agency can make decisions and establish public confidence by being directly accountable to the people. Our recommendations suggest that the agency should have responsibility for land use, roads and transit, including the three current regional entities. We believe the agency should have taxing, tolling and borrowing authority and should consist of nine elected and six appointed members. REPORT Our report begins with a summary of our results in Chapter 1, a description in Chapter 2 of the basis for our work and in Chapter 3, background information on the history and structure of the current system. In Chapter 4 we address the financing challenge facing the region punctuated by an estimated $62 billion shortfall over the next 24 years in the funding for planned transportation improvements. Juxtaposed with the funding shortfall is the prioritization challenge described in Chapter 5. The absence of a unified system for governing transportation has created a patchwork quilt of agencies that cooperate to a large degree but ultimately compete to get local or modal projects funded and built. In Chapter 6 we provided goals that we believe are appropriate for governing multimodal transportation in the region. The Commission benefited from the perspectives of executives from regional transportation agencies in Vancouver, B.C.; Portland; and Phoenix, and in Chapter 7 we summarized our findings from those presentations. While those findings were very helpful, we learned that those regions and others we studied are facing similar problems under different circumstances. Our journey ends with the recommendations in Chapters 8 and 9. In Chapter 8 we summarize one financial strategy recommendations and in Chapter 9 our governance recommendations. This report has only been possible because of the tremendous effort made by our commissioners, staff and advisers. We thank you for the opportunity to have served on this body. As you consider our report, we will be participating in the public debate around your deliberations for developing a regional solution to our transportation challenges. In the coming months and years ahead, we look forward to progress on our pressing transportation needs, which we are sure the region is capable of addressing and stand ready to contribute further to that process in any way requested. Sincerely, Norman B. Rice, Co-Chair John W. Stanton, Co-Chair On behalf of Commissioners Gigi Burke, Tim Farrell, Mary Gates, Dave Johnson, Dan McDonald, Reid Shockey and Dwight Sutton TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1: Findings and Recommendations Chapter 2: Introduction Chapter 3: Background Chapter 4: The Financing Challenge Chapter 5: Prioritization Challenges Chapter 6: Goals for Regional Transportation Governance Chapter 7: Lessons from Other Regions Chapter 8: Financing Strategy Recommendations Chapter 9: Recommended Regional Governance Model APPENDICES Appendix 1-1: RTC Public Opinion Research Appendix 4-1: History of Transportation Finance Appendix 9-1: Choice Matrix Appendix 9-2: Alternative Models ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CHAPTER 1: FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS The Regional Transportation Commission was established for the purpose of examining the vexing issues surrounding transportation in the Puget Sound region. Increased transportation activity is the inevitable consequence of economic success, together with population expansion and density. Creating a system that not only accommodates, but anticipates and facilitates growth and success is the challenge facing the region. In sharing our knowledge with each other, We have been impressed with the quality and members of the Commission have worked hard hard work of the agencies we reviewed, whether to function as a regional body, bringing together at the local, county or state level. A real attempt our ideas and insights to address this important has been made on the part of groups such as the issue. We have struggled to be as accurate Puget Sound Regional Council, WSDOT, and the as possible in describing the situation, while five local transit operators such as Pierce Transit, not pulling punches in diagnosing problems. to ensure that their transportation systems are We have endeavored to state what we know, working well in our communities. In doing so, using information that agencies themselves they have faced challenges ranging from have provided. Since we released our draft reduced or stagnant federal aid, to meeting the report on November 15th we have received complicated demands of the Growth Management over 350 pages of comments and five hours of Act, to patching together multiple funding streams oral testimony from more than 80 parties. Our to get needed projects done on time and under final report reflects several months of listening, budget. We salute their dedication to the safety research and discussion. Its primary purpose is and mobility of the public. to present realizable recommendations that will outline a program of action for the Legislature’s Nonetheless, our research has led to one consideration. In her announcement of the inescapable conclusion and overall finding: Commission, Governor Gregoire had urged us to Our current system of transportation governance be concerned with the needs of the region well delivers inadequate results, and will need into the future, and “to consider our transportation fundamental systemic change to meet our state’s needs in 2030, not only 2010.” We received similar transportation needs in the future. At this point urgings from legislative leaders, transit officials there is no single agency in the region with the and ordinary citizens. Our report intends to do ability to meet the overall transportation needs just that, and provide conclusions based on those of the region. In order to address regional needs, future
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