LaHood Proposes Bus Safety Actions
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood has been busy this week. Yesterday he announced his proposals to make travel by bus safer. His ideas include making it easier to take away bus drivers' commercial licenses if they violate drug and alcohol laws and requiring bus companies to pass a safety audit before receiving federal permission to operate.
Here are the details, straight from the man himself.
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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