To modify the goals of certain transportation agencies. The goals should include preservation, safety, mobility, environment and stewardship of the transportation system. The bill also makes a variety of technical changes on how certain agencies set goals related to transportation.   Official Text and Analysis.

To require the Office of Financial Management (OFM) to adopt objectives and performance measures rather than the Governor. The attainment report prepared by the state Transportation Commission must be submitted on a biennial basis. The statewide transportation plan prepared by the state Transportation Commission must be submitted every four years..

To support achievement of the new policy goals, requires the Department of Transportation to perform new duties, including the following: Maintain an inventory of the condition of structures and corridors in most urgent need of retrofit or rehabilitation; develop strategies to reduce the per capita vehicle miles traveled; and select engineers and architects to design environmentally sustainable, context-sensitive transportation systems. Modifies the stewardship goal such that the goal is expressed as seeking to continuously improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of the transportation system. Requires that the objectives and performance measures developed by the Office of Financial Management be submitted to the Legislature for its review. Requires that the reports on attaining the new policy goals be submitted by the Office of Financial Management, not the Transportation Commission. Provides for the dissolution and termination of a city transportation authority if certain conditions are met.

To find that replacement of the Alaskan Way viaduct and state route 520 bridge are the highest priority transportation projects, and that imposing tolls of seven or more dollars on the Lake Washington bridges would be a barrier to low and moderate income households and would discourage free movement of people throughout the region. As part of its November 2007 ballot proposition finance plan, precludes Sound Transit from funding any planning, development, or construction that is not included in their draft package dated January 11, 2007. Requires that revenues equal to the amount necessary to fund the expansion of light rail as proposed in Sound Transit's November 2007 ballot proposition be distributed to a regional transportation investment district (RTID) as follows: $1.1 billion for a tunnel replacement option for the Alaskan Way viaduct that maintains or exceeds current capacity. If a tunnel option is not selected for the viaduct, requires that the funds be allocated as follow: $2.7 billion for the SR 520 bridge replacement project; $640 million for state route 167 to the Port of Tacoma; $113 million for construction of state route 704 between Interstate 5 and state route number 7; and $94 million for the state route 509 connection to Interstate 5 at Sea-Tac. Requires that funds not necessary for the implementation of these projects be transferred to Sound Transit for the purpose of completing light rail to the Tacoma Dome transit center. Declares that these expenditures are in compliance with the sub-area equity principle. Precludes any transit agency from imposing sales and use tax in a manner inconsistent with distribution of funds as required under the Act. Precludes Sound Transit from applying any revenues from the 2007 ballot proposition toward light rail over Lake Washington. Prohibits the RTID from fully funding the SR 520 bridge project by tolling either of the bridges across Lake Washington.

Ruled to not be within the scope and object of the bill.