Tag: 2023 legislature

March 1, 2023

WA Bikes: Turn on red bill is dead, license reexamination bill moving forward + more legislature updates

Washington State bills banning turns on red near many key locations statewide are officially dead after neither the Senate nor the House failed to move them forward before a session deadline. This is how many bills die every year, essentially running out of momentum rather than getting voted down. It’s common for an idea to…
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tagged: 2023 legislature, washington bikes, WrongOnRed
February 14, 2023

WA Bikes: Legislative updates ahead of a big Friday deadline

Policy bills must be voted out of a committee in either the Washington House or Senate by Friday in order to stay alive this legislative session. Washington Bikes is urging people to contact your legislators to ask them to advance the bill to ban turns on red at certain locations across the state. They have…
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tagged: 2023 legislature, washington bikes, WrongOnRed
February 7, 2023

Support an end to ‘jaywalking’ laws in Washington

This is one part of a series about jaywalking laws in Seattle and Washington. See also: From the beginning, Seattle ‘jaywalker’ stings were used to arrest poor people and Seattle’s first jaywalking law in 1917 was part of the city’s class war. So-called ‘jaywalking’ laws in Seattle have, from the very beginning, been used as…
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tagged: 2023 legislature, hb 1428, jaywalking, sb 5383
January 30, 2023

Sign in now to show the WA Senate and House you support limiting turns on red

Both the state Senate and House are holding hearings on what Washington Bikes is calling “#WrongOnRed,” an effort to ban turns on red near certain locations like schools, parks, hospitals, senior centers and other areas with lots of walking activity. You can “sign in” on the record to voice your support for the bills as…
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tagged: 2023 legislature, HB 1582, SB 5514, washington bikes, WrongOnRed
January 23, 2023

WA bill would ban right turns on red near schools, parks and other highly-walked areas

Turns on red would be banned within 1,000 feet of certain places, such as schools, parks, hospitals, senior centers and other public facilities if Senate Bill 5514 passes during the 2023 State Legislative session. The bill—sponsored by Senators John Lovick, Rebecca Saldaña, Noel Frame, Derek Stanford and Marko Liias—is the first attempt in recent memory…
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tagged: 2023 legislature, right turns on red, SB 5514
December 14, 2022

Governor Inslee’s proposed budget includes millions for safety efforts

Governor Jay Inslee’s proposed 2023–25 budget responds to rising traffic deaths across the state by accelerating safety projects, creating a $5 million fund for responding to “emergent safety needs,” and $3 million specifically for SR-7 in Pierce County. “Like other states throughout the nation, Washington is experiencing increased traffic accidents and incidents that often result…
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tagged: 2023 legislature, dongho chang, jay inslee, pacific ave, sr-7