Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Do You Agree With Plan To Spend Transportation Dollars?

Okay folks, it's your money so you should be watching where it's spent. The draft 2011-2014 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) for Spokane County is now available for public review and comment.

The TIP is a funding program document that lists federally and non-federally funded transportation improvements proposed by jurisdictions in Spokane County for the next four years. It lists specific projects, project descriptions and how much each project is expected to cost.

It's interesting reading. I'd advise you to take a look, if not to see what projects are happening in your area then at least to make sure you agree with how millions of dollars are being spent. Here's a link to the draft TIP.

There will be a public meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 29 from 4-6 p.m. here at the SRTC office to provide members of the public to come in and look at the TIP and submit comments. Or you can submit comments by clicking here. If you like the good old fashioned U.S. Mail though, you can mail it to SRTC, 221 W. First Ave., Suite 310, Spokane, WA 99201. All comments must be received by 5 p.m. on Oct. 8.

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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.