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However, SB 5002, which would have adopted a 0.05% blood alcohol content standard, failed after lobbying from alcohol industry groups. Some important road safety bills did make it through: “Among the changes that the legislature was able to pass this year, one likely to be the most impactful is new authorization for the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) to install automatic speed cameras in highway work zones.”
Even as traffic deaths in Washington state rise sharply, the state legislature has largely abandoned a set of bills that would have prioritized road safety, reports Ryan Packer for The Urbanist.
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