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Public Transit Safety

The total number of transit-related fatalities in Washington remained at three in 2015, the same as in 2014, and the fatality rate also remained constant at 0.01 per million unlinked passenger trips (UPT; the number of boardings onto transit vehicles). UPT decreased from 218.1 million in 2014 to 217.3 million in 2015. Transit-related injuries grew 26% to 295 in 2015, up from 234 in 2014. The injury rate also increased by 26%, from 1.07 per million UPT in 2014 to 1.36 per million UPT in 2015.

Water Quality

WSDOT built 151 stormwater treatment and flow control facilities during FY2016. WSDOT completed inspections on 1,967 (98%) of its 2,002 existing stormwater facilities in FY2016. This exceeds the municipal stormwater permit requirement to inspect 95% of stormwater facilities annually.

  • Roughly 1% of WSDOT's inspected stormwater management facilities required repairs costing more than $25,000 in FY2016
  • WSDOT had 94% of its construction site stormwater samples meet water clarity benchmark criteria in FY2016

Aviation

WSDOT awarded $1.8 million for airport investments through its Airport Aid Grant Program in FY2017, and public-use airports in the state leveraged $1.3 million of those funds to secure $51.3 million from federal sources. The state and federal funds, combined with $6.6 million in local and other matching contributions, amount to $59.7 million in total dollars for FY2017, 50% of which ($30.0 million) is slated for safety projects.

  • WSDOT completed 100% of the Airport Master Record inspections scheduled for calendar year 2016
  • WSDOT streamlined the aircraft registration process, saving customers 3,200 hours of time during the registration window and letting WSDOT redeploy 29 labor hours

Capital Facilities

WSDOT owned 284 buildings that are 2,000 square feet or larger as of September 2016, termed Primary buildings, which represent approximately 21% of WSDOT capital facilities and 63% of total building area by square footage. The average age of WSDOT's 284 primary buildings is 43 years old. Less than one-third of the primary building inventory (30%) is 25 years old or less, and 36% of primary buildings fall in the 26-50 years old category. Primary buildings 51 years or older increased to 35% of WSDOT's inventory after seven buildings transitioned into the category during 2016.

  • WSDOT's planned water and energy improvements are expected to save over $1 million annually

Incident Response

WSDOT's Incident Response (IR) teams assisted at 15,102 incidents during the third quarter of 2016 (July through September). This averages to a WSDOT team responding to an incident scene roughly every nine minutes during the quarter. There were 1,396 more incidents during the third quarter of 2016 compared with the same period in 2015, about a 10% increase. WSDOT teams cleared incidents in an average of 12 minutes. This is 48 seconds faster than the average incident clearance time for the same quarter last year.

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