Rossi's key projects

Gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi says he wants to spend $15 billion on transportation projects across the state. Here's a quick look at his plan.

Key projects

• Replace the Highway 520 Floating Bridge with an eight-lane bridge.

• Widen Interstate 405 from Renton to Bellevue.

• Improve U.S. Highway 2.

• Improve state Highway 9.

• Extend and improve state Highway 167.

• Widen Highway 509 to Interstate 5.

• Build the Cross Base Highway in Pierce County.

• Replace and improve the I-5 Columbia River Bridge.

• Construct the North Spokane Freeway.

• Replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a tunnel.

Source of the money

• $7.7 billion from the state sales tax on new and used vehicles.

• $2.4 billion from eliminating the state sales tax on transportation projects.

• $690 million from Sound Transit's account for Eastside projects.

• $721 million from tolls on the new 520 bridge once it is completed in 2014.

• $1.6 billion in existing 520 bridge funding.

• $2.3 billion in anticipated viaduct funding.

Other proposals

• Eliminate sales tax on purchases of hybrid, electric and alternative-fuel vehicles for the next 10 years.

• Add $368 million to the Ferry Capital Account, to build ferries and improve terminals.

• Open car-pool lanes to all traffic during off-peak hours.

• Spend $200 million to fix salmon-blocking culverts.