FINAL BILL REPORT

SSB 6053

C 130 L 01

Synopsis as Enacted

Brief Description:  Adjusting state route 525.

Sponsors:  Senate Committee on Transportation (originally sponsored by Senators Shin, Oke and Haugen).

Senate Committee on Transportation

House Committee on Transportation

Background:  In 1991, the Legislature designated the Transportation Improvement Board (TIB) to review requests from cities, counties or the state for route jurisdiction transfers.  In accordance with the WAC rules for a jurisdiction transfer, Snohomish County requested on January 21, 2000, that jurisdiction of Paine Field Boulevard be transferred from Snohomish County to the Washington State Department of Transportation.  The TIB recommends the Paine Field Boulevard jurisdiction transfer and has indicated that the transfer is consistent with the following:

WAC 479-21-200(4)  Is the principal arterial that is a connecting link between two state highways and serves regionally oriented through traffic in urbanized areas with a population of 50,000 or greater.

WAC 479-210-250(2)  State highway routes maintain continuity by being composed of routes that join other state routes at both ends.

WAC 479-210-250(4)  Exceptions may be made to include: urban connecting links as state highways that function as needed bypass routing of regionally oriented through traffic and benefit truck routing, capacity alternative, business congestion, and geometric deficiencies.

Summary:  Jurisdiction of Paine Field Boulevard is transferred from Snohomish County to the Washington State Department of Transportation.

Votes on Final Passage:

Senate460

House     97 0

Effective:  July 22, 2001