Monday, December 13, 2010

Quiet Zone Creation Could Be Long Process

From time to time I receive a complaint about train whistles and am asked what can be done to shut them up at night. SRTC's Bridging the Valley project could help with that problem, but it's not moving ahead very quickly due to a lack of funding and the lack of a new Federal transportation bill.

The City of Spokane Valley is now jumping on the band wagon, looking into establishing 'quiet zones.' So far they're not having a lot of luck though due to the long, expensive process required by the railroads to develop these zones.The Spokane Valley News Herald has the story.
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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.