Issue Position: Transportation and Infrastructure

Issue Position

Highway 100 and Highway 494; need I say more? As an entrepreneurial family, both my wife and I are commuting to meet clients, serve our community, and enrich our state. This becomes immensely difficult when our roads are antiquated, traffic is stuck, and gas is wasted. As your Representative, I will work to improve the efficiency of construction on our major highways, develop an open-bidding process to encourage competition for the infrastructure so vital to our lives, and ultimately make our roads and infrastructure safer, modern and sustainable. As the Representative for 49B, I will:
Work to place a long-term moratorium on light rail projects and viability studies, in order to focus resources on road expansion and repair, and divert transit dollars to more cost effective modes of transit -- including electric and self-driving automobile initiatives
Ensure the legislature more-aggressively dedicates a portion of the existing statewide sales tax proceeds to fund road and bridge maintenance and expansion
Embrace technological efficiencies that improve transportation experience, such as Uber, and resist special interest legislation that attempts to put a halt to it

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