About SRTC
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.
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I have a real problem with electric cars. We live in an area that gets cold in the winter, so how do you heat an electric car? Gasoline cars use waste heat to heat the car, but batteries are very inefficient in cold weather and to use the batteries to heat the car would severely limit the mileage an electric car could go before it needs to be recharged. Have you ever rode in a car in the winter that the heater was not working?
Oh have I ever ridden in a car with no heat. I think I've blogged about this before, but the car I used to drive when working for the City of Spokane was a retired Crown Vic police car with no heat or defrost. In the winter I would scrape the windows- outside AND inside.
Besides the problem of having to recharge the battery often in the winter, I've heard that batteries for electric cars are extremely expensive, another reason why electrics may not fit the budget for every person, besides the price to buy the car in the first place.
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