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FAST Project Map
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"What is FAST Phase II"? FAST Phase II is the second step in a multi-year effort to ensure that transportation infrastructure remains viable for freight mobility throughout our state. Fast Phase I was so successful in leveraging partnership funds and talents to get critical projects funded and delivered, that a second phase was added. Like Phase I, Phase II is jointly sponsored by the Washington State Department of Transportation and the Puget Sound Regional Council. Phase II will emphasize freight mobility strategies that can be most effectively applied to a wide variety of geographic locations within the region, and improvements to specific corridors that offer the greatest bang for the buck in terms of improving the regional system of freight mobility. The total funding goal for FAST Phase II is $ 262.82 million.
The funds would go to 10 projects. Each project would be implemented by a lead agency from the FAST partnership. Details on fund allocations and project list.
And this work is important, because . . . Washington is the most trade-dependent state in the nation. In addition, efficient freight and goods mobility is critical to local jobs and businesses, as well as to the supplies of food and services that we take for granted. Freight mobility - the movement of goods by truck, train, ship, plane, or all of these transportation modes combined - will be a pivotal factor in our ability to stay competitive in the international marketplace. A major obstacle to freight mobility is the lack of smooth connections between different parts of the transportation system. In Washington, many of the bottlenecks and rough spots are in the central Puget Sound region. |
