Building on a long history of regional collaboration and 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 of RCW 47.80 and RCW 36.70A.070. Enduring goals, policies, and other mechanisms form a policy framework that provides on-going guidance so that decisions we each make over time are consistent with an agreed upon common direction. But the RTP is more than that. It offers a planning framework to help us identify and evaluate tough topics that are bigger than any one member and a menu of near-term actions that we can pursue to move the needle on seemingly intractable issues and cue up useful next steps.

The Peninsula RTP Online provides a uniquely regional perspective on the challenges and opportunities this region will grapple with over the next few decades. We welcome your comments any time.

Navigating the RTP Online

RTP Online is organized around a Policy Framework and a Planning Framework.

• Long-standing goals and policies, vision, consistency documentation, and other statutory policy mechanisms are found within the Policy Framework. 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 a compendium of findings and statements that satisfy state laws governing minimum standards for the RTP.

• The Planning Framework is an interactive storymap element featuring an array of tough topics we have identified that impact our ability to deliver on our transportation commitments in a reliable and efficient way - or will soon. This includes a regional action plan to guide future work by PRTPO and other stakeholders as well as the current RTP Project list.