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Mountlake Terrace staff seeks council adoption of updated Commute Trip Reduction plan and renewal of Community Transit agreement
Summary
Mountlake Terrace staff asked the council to adopt an updated Commute Trip Reduction plan and renew an interlocal agreement with Community Transit; the draft strengthens employer requirements and expands available measures to reduce drive‑alone commutes.
City traffic engineer John Merrick presented an update to Mountlake Terrace’s Commute Trip Reduction (CTR) plan and recommended council adopt the updated plan by ordinance on June 26 and renew the interlocal agreement with Community Transit, which helps administer the program.
Merrick said the CTR plan aligns with state law that requires jurisdiction plans to reduce drive‑alone commuting and that the city’s prior plan dated from 2017 had not been updated because commuting patterns changed following the COVID-19 pandemic. The state’s approach sets targets for drive‑alone commute rates; Merrick said Mountlake Terrace’s baseline (from the 2017 survey) yields a target drive‑alone rate of about 63 percent and that the new plan uses a 15 percent reduction target…
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