Thursday, June 11, 2009

Market Street Projects Gets WSDOT Funds

The City of Spokane has just been notified they've been selected for $1.5 million of funding for their Market Street Pedestrian project! That money will come from Washington State Department of Transportation's Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety program.

The entire project involves replacing sidewalks along 13 blocks of Market, adding lighting, street trees, bulb outs (traffic-calming devices that narrow the street by widening the curb and sidewalk), and other ammenities. That $1.5 million will be spent specifically on six blocks of the work between Queen and Columbia.

Construction starts on the project within the next six weeks.

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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.

SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.