Monday, December 6, 2010

New Snow Strategy In Place For West Side

If you turned on your TV or computer at all last week or the week before, you probably saw the media coverage of the mayhem that seiged the west side of the state when a snowstorm blew through. People were literally stuck on I5 for hours due to many slideoffs and collisions. To avoid this kind of gridlock again, the Washington State Department of Transportation and the Washington State Patrol have come up with a new strategy that includes two new 'response teams.' You can learn more about that strategy here, from the Snohomish Times.
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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.

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