OLYMPIA — Legislation sponsored by Sen. Nikki Torres to address dangerous crash hotspots on Washington roadways was signed into law Friday during a bill signing ceremony in Yakima. Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 6066 creates “crash prevention zones,” a targeted approach to improving safety on roadways with higher-than-expected rates of...

OLYMPIA — Legislation introduced by Sen. Nikki Torres to address dangerous crash hotspots on Washington roadways passed the House of Representatives with strong bipartisan support on Friday. The House approved Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 6066 on March 6 by a 94–2 vote. The measure creates what Torres calls “crash...

We depend on our roads every single day. They are the paths that carry our children to school, parents to work, grandparents to doctor’s appointments, and families home at the end of the day. When they work safely, we hardly think about them. When those paths become predictable sites of...

OLYMPIA—Sen. Nikki Torres has advanced Senate Bill 6066 to give local governments and the Washington State Department of Transportation a new tool to address roadways with a high number of serious and fatal crashes by establishing temporary “crash prevention zones” focused on safety improvements. “This is not a bill I...

State Senators Nikki Torres, R-Pasco, Curtis King, R-Yakima, and Keith Goehner, R-Dryden are calling on the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) to reallocate federal bridge funding toward a more pressing infrastructure need in the City of Zillah. In a joint letter sent this week to WSDOT’s Local Programs Director...