Monday, July 11, 2011

Smart Growth Groups Team Up For Transportation

This is interesting- apparently the smart growth organizations Futurewise and Transportation Choices Coalition are fed up with our transportation situation and teaming up to do something about it.

A news release from the two organizations put out this morning said that Washington State faces a transportation crisis: structurally deficient bridges, congested roads, inadequate transit choices, too much toxic runoff and global warming pollution, and not enough money to fix the problems.

That’s why they created the “Transportation for Washington” campaign to achieve real reform with new policies and funding. This Wednesday, the groups say they will announce a growing list of public officials in Spokane County who endorse the campaign’s core principles of fixing what’s broken, expanding transit, and building great, healthy communities.

I'll follow up on this and let you know that day who those officials are.

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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.