Timeline
Stakeholder and community engagement will inform key decision points throughout the planning process.
- Fall 2019
Initiation - Winter 2020 to Spring 2021
Discovery
Financial Framework - Summer 2021 to Winter 2022
Scenario Analysis - Winter 2022 to Spring 2022
Plan Development
Next Steps
Additional information will be available as the plan develops. Including:
- Fall 2021
Staffed Open House - Fall 2021 or Winter 2022
Investment scenarios - Spring 2022
Draft Plan available for public comment
What will we have when we are done?
The Highway System Plan is a financially constrained plan. Unlike previous plans, for this update, a list of highway system projects will not be developed. Instead, the plan will identify program funding levels and tradeoffs between investment scenarios.
The final plan will document all public input, evaluation criteria, analysis and decisions made throughout the process, and will meet our responsibility to protect and leverage past taxpayer investment before investing in multimodal system expansion, consistent with RCW 47.06.050. After the plan is completed, it will serve as the basis for the six-year highway program and the two-year biennial budget request to the Legislature, and WSDOT will collaborate with Regional Transportation Planning Organizations on selecting specific investments.