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RESOLUTION NO. 5952 A RESOLUTION of the City of Everett in support of Proposition 1, the "Roads and Transit" measure on the November 2007 ballot. WHEREAS,the Washington State Blue Ribbon Commission on Transportation of 2000 concluded that rapidly increasing traffic congestion in the Central Puget Sound was costing the region more than $2 billion annually and negatively impacting the economy, the environment, and our quality of life; and WHEREAS,the 2006 Regional Transportation Commission further noted that: • The region grew 42 percent between the years 1980 and 2000 while vehicle miles traveled increased 88 percent; • Drivers experience an average of 285,000 hours of delay each day, 45,000 of which represent freight and trucking slowdowns; • A driver who would have experienced 16 hours of delay in 1982 sat through 47 hours of annual delay in 2003; • Overall the region faces at least a$54.1 billion deficit between needed transportation investments and available transportation revenues; and WHEREAS,transportation is directly connected to the region's economic well-being with very specific impacts on rail and truck freight movement, commercial and industrial distribution networks,ports, and commuters; and WHEREAS, for the City of Everett, the service level of Interstate 5, the efficiency of the U.S. Highway 2 trestle, the availability of transit options, and the overall transportation network has a dramatic impact on the city's ability to grow, prosper,protect its quality of life, and meet its land-use and planning obligations; and WHEREAS,the City directly benefits from investments in transportation and transit, particularly connecting major employment, service, entertainment and transportation centers with the rest of the region; and WHEREAS,the Legislature reflected the belief that a comprehensive investment in transportation requires a balance of roads and transit working together side by side; and WHEREAS,the Regional Transportation Investment District and Sound Transit have assembled a package that addresses key highway corridors, traffic choke points, safety, freight mobility, an extended light-rail network, and other multi-modal solutions; and