County Cuts Engineering Staff
The Spokane County Engineering and Roads Department Tuesday laid off 13 engineering technicians for lack of work. The layoffs are driven by an across-the-board reduction in capital projects. Next year’s construction schedule is expected to cost about $12 million, compared with about $40 million in recent years.
The Spokesman-Review has more.
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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