Thursday, June 30, 2011

WSDOT Team Refuses Prize Money

To put it mildly, government workers sometimes get a bad reputation for being lazy folks who just want to spend your tax dollars leaning on a shovel or surfing the internet. While every industry has it's dead weight, most government workers I know are passionate about their roles as civil servants. None more so than a group of Washington State Department of Transportation workers who recently rejected prize money for figuring out a way to save taxpayers millions of dollars.

KOMO News has the amazing story of this team who put their heads together for the good of the state.

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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.