State Planning To Spend Money To Make Money
You've heard the old saying 'You have to spend money to make money?' Well, that's kind of what the state is banking on in an effort to bring in federal funds for transportation. The Washington State Department of Transportation is planning to pay a four year $750,000 contract to a lobbyist firm and they're hoping it will pay off by bringing millions of dollars into the state for transportation infrastructure.
Herald.net has the story.
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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