Thursday, March 11, 2010

'Ghost Bike' Placed At Location Where Bicyclist Was Killed

A celebration of life and benefit for the family of David Squires will take place tomorrow. Squires is the Spokane man killed when hit by a car on his bike last week in downtown Spokane. Here's more information on the event from the Spokesman-Review.

In the meantime, a 'ghost bike' has been placed at the site where Squires died. And a lot of people are questioning what it will take to keep something like this from happening again. Many people are using this incident to point out the advantages of local jurisdictions adopting 'complete ctreets' policies. SRTC is in the process of educating our Board, and working with other local groups to educate local elected officials, on the complete streets movement. Here's more information on complete streets. And here is an article in the Inlander that came out today about Squires' death and the state of bicycling and walking in Spokane today.

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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.