Congratulations to
the Washington State Department of
Transportation for winning the coveted 2011 People’s Choice Award for the
top transportation project in the entire USA!
Forty outstanding projects from 29 states were in the running for this year’s edition of America’s Transportation Awards, but none could top WSDOT’s I-5 Partnership to Relieve Congestion.
Forty outstanding projects from 29 states were in the running for this year’s edition of America’s Transportation Awards, but none could top WSDOT’s I-5 Partnership to Relieve Congestion.
Working
with federal, state, local and military leaders at Joint Base Lewis McCord,
WSDOT slashed commuter snarls and nasty multi-mile backups by coordinating
signals, streamlining interchanges and access points, and sharply reducing
incident-response times.
Washington
qualified for the People’s Choice finals by winning top national honors in the
Innovative Management for a Small Project category. But the sweetest
victory came this week when the American Association of State Highway and
Transportation Officials presented the People’s Choice Award and a $10,000
prize.
Washington
won in a landslide. Some 147,000 people cast votes for the 10 finalists in the
national competition, and WSDOT netted an astounding 40 percent of the total,
winning with 62,000 votes.
The $10,000 award for the top prize will go to the WSDOT Memorial
Foundation, which is dedicated to preserving the memory of fallen
transportation workers and helping the families of WSDOT employees and
retirees.
To learn more visit the America’s
Transportation Award website.
