Want to know what transportation projects are proposed for Spokane County, what your alternatives are to driving alone, and how to find out about local road closures or backups caused by accidents and other incidents? This blog is designed to educate the public on all transportation-related issues in Spokane County.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
New MTP Web Page
Let's go back in time. About 60 years, to a time when transportation was all about your big shiny automobile on a wide open road. Now let's go forward. Approximately 30 years into the future. The roads aren't so wide open now due to population growth, budgets are tight and our infrastructure is deteriorating. How to fix this? By planning ahead. Which means starting now. That's what we're doing here at SRTC with our Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP), called Horizon 2040. The Plan is a long-term, multimodal “blueprint” for transportation aimed at meeting the mobility needs of the area through the year 2040. It's based on projections for growth in population, housing and jobs and takes into consideration every mode of transportation, such as private vehicles, public transit, bicycling, walking, freight movement, rail and air travel. The MTP is key to the quality of life and economic health of our region.
We've developed a special page on our website to the development of Horizon 2040. You can find it here.
We also invite you to watch this video produced by City Cable 5 on the MTP process. Now, start thinking of what you want to see for transportation in the future because I'm going to be bugging you about it very soon.
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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