OLYMPIA — The Senate released its bipartisan 2025-2027 supplemental  transportation budget, which prioritizes increasing investments in preservation and maintenance, creating jobs, strengthening the state’s ferry system, improving traffic safety, and advancing the state’s climate goals. The supplemental budget balances the state’s transportation accounts through 2031, and it includes a combined increase of $1.5 billion over the 2025 enacted budget. “When we wrote the biennial transportation budget last session, I committed to delivering a bipartisan plan for Washingtonians. This supplemental budget continues that spirit of bipartisanship, and it’s a plan that will deliver for communities large and small across the state,” said Sen. Marko Liias (D-Edmonds), chair of the Senate Transportation Committee. “I’m proud our plan prioritizes funding for preservation and maintenance — investments that will help repair our aging infrastructure and create ...