Monday, May 16, 2011

WA Gets FLA Money For High Speed Rail

High-speed rail improvements in Western Washington got a boost last week when the state announced it will get an additional $15 million for the Amtrak Cascades service. The money had been set aside for Florida but was rejected by political leaders in that state.

The Spokesman-Review's 'Getting There' column has that story and other local transportation news.

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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.

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.