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Tell the DOT what you think about it in this online survey

The state Department of Transportation is inviting people to take a survey evaluating the state department’s performance.

Here’s what the survey intro says:

The mission of the Washington State Department of Transportation is to keep people and business moving by operating and improving the state’s transportation systems vital to our taxpayers and communities. We manage more than 20,000 state highway lane miles that carry 86 million vehicle miles a day. The Washington State Ferries, WSDOT’s ferries division, operates 22 ferry vessels and 20 terminals, carrying 23 million passengers a year.

Our state-sponsored Amtrak Cascades service carries more than 700,000 passengers a year, and our state-managed “Grain Train” runs 89 grain cars on 1,432 miles of short-line rail.

Other critical and important transportation programs include our support for commute programs support more than 810,000 commuters statewide, eliminated 170 million vehicle miles traveled annually. We have the largest vanpool program in the country. Our Aviation division operates 16 general aviation airports statewide.

We take our mission very seriously. And, because of that, we would like to know your opinion about how we are doing.

Click here to take the survey.

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    Welcome to Traffic Talk, a transportation blog written by Growth and Transportation Reporter Jared Paben. We invite you to participate in this forum to discuss roads-related issues in Whatcom County.

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    Jared will also post updates on road closures and on tidbits he thinks readers may find interesting. People with story ideas are welcome to leave posts, but they should also send Jared their contact information, so he can contact them to learn more.

    Contact Jared at 715-2289 or jared.paben@bellinghamherald.com.


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