"All projects with any possible impacts to the local community require a balanced and sensitive approach to planning, design, and construction. The WSDOT, the FHWA, tribes, local agencies, and/or other partners need to understand and implement collaborative approaches that allow all stakeholders to participate equally in the vision, design, and construction of the project. At the same time, joint projects need to be implemented in a way that enables those stakeholders to achieve multiple project goals.
A new model for joint projects requires a new way of thinking, a new approach to projects, and a new willingness to craft innovative ways to meet both community and WS DOT priorities. This kind of approach, which relies on early, good communication and partnership, goes a long way toward preventing the "rework" cycle - that is, the need to go back and completely redesign the project because not all of the players have been on board from the beginning."
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