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King County roads division warns capital program endangered as recent storms and long-term shortfalls strain maintenance
Summary
Road Services Division Director Tricia Davis told the KCTD the county's unincorporated road network (about 1,500 miles and 193 bridges) faces a chronic funding shortfall—an updated annual gap of about $200 million and an overall need around $2.5 billion—and that storm damage this past December adds immediate unfunded repairs that could exhaust capital funds by 2028.
Tricia Davis, director of the King County Road Services Division, told the Transportation District board in Issaquah that unincorporated county roads and bridges are aging, storm-damaged and underfunded.
Davis said the division maintains roughly 1,500 miles of unincorporated roads and 193 bridges, with about 400 employees. "We have about 1,500 miles in our unincorporated road system, 193 bridges," she said. She described a long-running funding problem driven by growth-management limits, flat gas tax revenues and rising construction costs.
Davis summarized a series of program cuts and deferrals made to preserve a shrinking capital…
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