County Loses Authority To Acquire Land For Federal Road Projects
State officials are stripping Spokane County of independent authority to acquire land for federally supported road projects, as a result of alleged mismanagement of the County's Bigelow Gulch construction project.
The Spokesman-Review today reports that two phases of the $66 million project don’t qualify for federal right-of-way reimbursement and three more phases could be at risk.
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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.
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