Local Street Vacated For Traffic Calming Benefits
On his blog, Spokane City Councilmember Jon Snyder recounts how vacating a street will make it safer for buses to drop kids off at a local elementary school and how the surrounding neighborhood will receive an enormous benefit in traffic calming as a result.
Here's 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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