How to fund the rest of the North Spokane Corridor is up in the air. Nearly $600 million has been allocated to the new freeway so far, but an additional $1.3 billion is needed to complete it, and the economic outlook isn't so rosy considering the economy at this time.
Here's an article from yesterday's Spokesmab-Review detailing where the NSC stands now.
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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.
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.
2 comments:
Well at least they are going ahead with the Francis Bridge, hope the city changed their requirement for the bike lane on the bridge. I would not want to be sandwiched on a bike between a semi and a 42 inch concrete wall like the city was proposing for the bike lane.
I haven't seen anything about it recently @Charles. I'll have to look into it. You're right, sounds a little uncomfortable.
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