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Transportation Choices Coalition brings people together to advocate for safe, sustainable, and equitable transportation across Washington.
How We Work
We advocate for policies and funding that support transit and safe walks to transit. We pair our advocacy with in-depth research and robust public education.
Policy Research + Development
We do research and collaborate with organizational partners, policy experts, and elected leaders to develop and support progressive, intersectional, and community-driven policies. Our policies prioritize healthy transportation investments in areas that need it most; encourage walkable and affordable transit-oriented communities; normalize the use of race and social equity analyses in policy and process development, and build power in historically disenfranchised populations.
Advocacy
To achieve our policy goals, we focus on building coalitions across sectors. We collaborate to leverage our collective power and resources to find solutions within agency policy, through legislative bodies, and at the ballot box.
Education + Engagement
We foster relationships with our coalition and communities to reach a shared understanding, develop goals, and identify policy that support equitable transportation options for all. By taking our policy work to the people and connecting them to opportunity we give transit supporters and riders the tools to advocate for their communities, encourage further policy work, and continue to engage and elevate transportation issues.
In the last decade we have…
In 2025, residents of Ellensburg, home to Central Washington University, passed Proposition 1 with 65% approval to permanently renew the sales tax that funds Ellensburg Central Transit. We led the Yes on Ellensburg Transit campaign and worked with a local coalition to win!
Seattle voters unequivocally passed a $1.55 billion transportation levy to invest in Seattle’s roads, bridges, sidewalks, and transit — the largest levy in Seattle’s history!
This levy will help repave major corridors, making them safer for people walking, biking, and taking transit; build and repair sidewalks to make Seattle more accessible; connect people safely to our growing light rail network; and save lives on some of the most dangerous roads in Seattle.
In 2022, Transportation Choices Coalition and our partners were instrumental in winning a paradigm-shifting transformation of transportation spending in Washington — $5.2 billion in investments toward the emission-reducing solutions of transit, walking, and biking through the Move Ahead Washington package. It took a vast coalition of organizations, advocates, and legislators working over multiple sessions to pass this package with everyone from youth transit riders to the legislators playing a role.
As part of Move Ahead Washington, we helped make transit free for the 1.6 million Washingtonians 18 and under with Youth Ride Free — a first-in-the-nation policy that alleviates household transportation costs and builds a new generation of transit riders.
TCC led the coalition to win $54B for light rail, bus rapid transit, commuter rail and express bus expansion through Sound Transit 3, connecting our communities, and increasing access to opportunity for Puget Sound residents. This is the most significant transit expansion ever in Washington State and will transform communities positively for generations to come.
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Every transportation budget is about more than numbers. It’s about whether people can get home safely. Whether our communities stay connected. Whether we actually follow through on our climate commitments. Whether transit systems can grow, or just try to survive.
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