Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Dead transportation funding bills still haunting some in cyberspace

Spokesman Review's Eye on Olympia blogger, Rich Roesler, reports that two controversial transportation funding bills were essentially killed in committee last week, but some people in blogosphere are still fighting them: here

While it is not likely these two bills will be resurected, it is clear -- at some point, soon -- the legislature will have to address transportation funding needs statewide.

How would you propose to fund transportation needs in our state? Do you favor a tax on emmissions? What about a fee based on the amount of vehicle miles traveled in a year? A fee based on gas milage? Tolls?

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SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.

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