What is Transportation Element?
The Washington State Growth Management Act specifies transportation as a required element of a comprehensive plan. GMA requires that transportation planning and system development support the broader, long-range goals for community development.
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The transportation element must implement and be consistent with the land use element.
The transportation element includes the following statutory sub-elements:
- Land use assumptions used in estimating travel
- Estimated traffic impacts
- Facilities and service needs, including an inventory of transportation facilities and services
- Level of service standards,
- Actions for bringing locally owned transportation facilities or services into compliance,
- Forecasts of traffic for at least 10 years, and
- Identification of state and local system needs to meet current and future demands
- Finance, including a multiyear financing plan
- Intergovernmental coordination efforts
- Demand management strategies and
- Pedestrian and bicycle component
The Transportation Plan needs to be in compliance with the state, regional and county level legislation.
