Development undertaken to serve population growth is making worse traffic tie-ups in the Puget Sound region. "If we don't do something with the I-5 corridor, we are going to choke on traffic in 20 years," said Bruce Agnew, director of the Discovery Institute's Cascadia Center that seeks to unclog the region's gridlock. There is only so much capacity on roads, and no one's talking about what will be done "when we hit it," said Thomas Till, also a director at the center. There are a dozen agencies responsible for transportation in the region. That's "too many cooks in the kitchen," said Agnew, an Everett native and former Snohomish County Councilman. A 2006 law set up a panel to look at this lineup. Gregoire should embrace trimming the number, they said. Read More ›