If you could change anything you wanted in Washington State over the next 5 years, what would it be?
Washington Residents Voice What They What Changed Within 5 Years
Even though it may seem like it sometimes, no single person (not even the Governor) is a king in Washington State. Creating or changing state laws takes lots of time, compromise, and ideas from many different kinds of people. I was thinking about that after seeing an interesting question asked on Reddit saying, “What are some WA issues you would like to see fixed within the next 5 years?” Let’s just say that the conversation took off with multiple different concerns raised, some of which I honestly hadn’t thought about in a while. After reading through the entire large list of comments, I gathered ideas from the 14 issues that were most mentioned in no particular order. and listed them below. I found it enlightening that the range of issues brought up in this conversation was so broad and varied.
These 14 Issues Washington State Residents Want Changed
#1 – “Governor term limits like Oregon”
#2 – “The white lines on roads and highways. Rain makes those disappear right now – and we get rain a lot. It’s a safety issue.”
#3 – “Dots on I5 so we can see at night and in the rain, Reflective paint on the lane dividers on I5, Streetlights that actually function on I5.”
#4 – “Housing affordability. My wife and I work our asses off but can barely afford to house our family.”
#5 – “We need affordable housing and more connected neighborhoods.”
#6 – “Public transportation needs to be significantly better.”
#7 – “Fix the purple street lights along 167/405 interchanges.”
#8 – “Make it illegal for people to camp outside a designated campsite”
#9 – “Lack of mental healthcare”
#10 – “Banning non-compete contracts outright.”
#11 – “Mental health reform – (reopening state inpatient facilities, solving licensing bottlenecks, limiting the scope of practice of lower trained practitioners, expanding the scope of practice of psychologists to include prescribing)”
#12 – “Homelessness”
#13 – “Serious restrictions on foreign corporations/entities buying residential properties.”
#14 – “I would like to see all the cloth seats come out of public transport.”
You can read the entire conversation of ideas by clicking here.