Puget Sound Regional Council outlines Vision 2050 goals, warns of growing local street funding gap

Puget Sound Regional Council Executive Director Josh Brown told the Seattle City Council Transportation Committee on Aug. 5 that Vision 2050 remains the region’s “North Star” for linking land use and transportation planning and that the next regional transportation plan, due in 2026 with a planning horizon to 2050, will be a major update.

The update is intended to incorporate local comprehensive-plan project lists, renew emphasis on safety, equity, climate and transit access, and respond to higher-than-anticipated cost escalation. “We have to have this regional transportation plan to unlock the door and tap into accessing all the critical federal transportation funds that the region counts on,” Brown said.

Why it matters: PSRC coordinates planning across cities, counties and transit agencies for the Central Puget Sound region and distributes hundreds of millions of dollars in federal transportation funding…