By Bill Bryant, president of the Seattle Port Commission

The future of Puget Sound ports and the tens of thousands of jobs they generate in King and Pierce counties depend on Seattle and Tacoma moving freight to the Mid West more efficiently than our competitors. …

Canada and Houston and Georgia are not going to politely wait for us to get our act together. If our state government’s governance and financing mechanisms cannot fund the projects we need to nurture our competitiveness and protect our jobs, we should transform our state’s transportation governance and financing.

From Pacific Maritime Magazine, April 2010