Monday, March 8, 2010

SAFETEA-LU Latest

If you're like most people, you're aware that the U.S.'s transportation spending bill, SAFETEA-LU (Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users) expired a while back and we've had a couple extentions of it. And you're most likely aware that there was a scare last week when lawmakers couldn't reach a concensus on extending it and some U.S. Department of Transportation employees were laid off for a couple days while details were hashed out.

There's been a lot happening since then though that you probably don't know about, especially behind the scenes. WSDOT's Larry Ehl provides this synopsis of the situation, including its impact on Washington State.
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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.