Jobs Bill Goes To President For Approval
The Senate has voted to accept an $18 billion version of the jobs bill, and sent it on to President Obama to approve.
The bill is aimed at relieving high unemployment rates and includes a one-year extension of the law governing federal transportation funding, and would transfer $20 billion into the highway trust fund.
Here are the details from the Washington Post.
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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