Tuesday, March 20, 2012

WA State Graded 'Not Easily Corruptible'

Hey good news Washingtonians; you're not easily corruptible. This isn't specifically transportation related but I thought it was intersting that two watch dog organizations recently named Washington among the least “corruptible” states in the nation.

The Center for Public Integrity and Global Integrity joined with Public Radio International and journalists around the country to score the states on questions involving a wide array of government activities. While we didn't get an A, our state was graded pretty high for the way it handles political redistricting, internal audits of state government and disclosure of lobbyists’ pay and spending.

We also had a couple areas we didn't score high in though. The Spokesman-Review has our overall score, and the details.

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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.