Building on a long history of regional cooperation

PRTPO’s Regional Transportation Plan (RTP) reflects the on-going partnership of cities, counties, tribes, transit agencies, ports, and WSDOT Olympic Region working together to ensure our individual plans and investment decisions are consistent over time and keep the Peninsula region moving. The shared aim is a transportation system that gets people and goods where they need to be, when they need to be there. A system that is safe, efficient, and accessible to all throughout the four-county region, regardless of the mode of travel. State and regional transportation systems working in tandem with locally adopted land use policies and Comprehensive Plans to meet the needs of residents and businesses today, and long into the future.

Since 1995 the RTP has helped to ensure consistency between local and state plans in compliance with statutory requirements. Enduring goals, policies, and other mechanisms form a policy framework that provides on-going guidance so that decisions each agency makes over time are consistent with an agreed upon common direction. But the Peninsula RTP Online is more than that. It provides a planning framework that identifies tough topics that are bigger than any one member along with a menu of near-term actions we can pursue to begin moving the needle on some of these seemingly intractable issues.

The Peninsula RTP Online provides a uniquely regional perspective on the challenges and opportunities this region will grapple with over the next few decades while advancing today’s mobility concerns.

Let us know what you think! You’re invited to share your comments on the draft update between May 22 - June 12. Comments received by 5:00 pm on June 12th will be included in the Executive Board review materials ahead of their June 20th meeting, when the Board is expected to approve this update. This review poll includes some specific questions we’re asking, but you can also submit general responses by email to TheraB@PeninsulaRTPO.org.

Navigating the RTP Online

RTP Online is organized around a Policy Framework and a Planning Framework, and includes a Project List.

• The Policy Framework includes long-standing goals and policies, vision, consistency determinations, and other statutory policy mechanisms established in state law. This includes the original RTP that established the regional foundation for multimodal transportation plans and coordinated land use planning that has been in place since 1995 as well as subsequent plans that laid out the policy foundation for the region.

• The Planning Framework is an interactive storymap element featuring an array of tough topics that impact our ability to deliver on our transportation commitments to each of our communities in a reliable and efficient way - or they will soon. The Planning Framework includes a Strategic Agenda & Action Plan to guide future work of PRTPO and other stakeholders. We will update it periodically to accommodate new insights and emerging issues.

• A companion RTP Project List identifies near-term funding priorities agencies are pursuing funding for over the next year or two, as well as a short list of long-term regionally significant projects that will take many years to fund and complete. It is updated annually in conjunction with the Regional Transportation Improvement Program. It is available in a printable form and an interactive online map.