This editorial will appear in Wednesday’s print edition.
The Legislature must pass an operating budget before it calls it quits for the year. That’s a constitutional necessity. But it must also pass a transportation package. That’s an economic necessity.
With the special session winding down, the prospects of the $10 billion highway-and-transit proposal remain precarious. Lawmakers can’t let it fail. The consequences of its passage — or its rejection — are literally incalculable.
Aside from a festering dispute over a new bridge between Vancouver and Portland, the projects in the package enjoy broad support.
The most important of them, the …
