Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Obama Requests $50B For Infrastructure Investment

President Obama is pressing for infrastructure investment again as part of the fiscal cliff negotiations. Among other things, he asked for $50 billion in infrastructure spending. That's the same proposal he pushed last year as part of the American Jobs Act that didn't go anywhere.

 It’s not clear how that money would be spent specifically, but the Jobs Bill included $9 billion for transit and $4 billion for high-speed rail, as well as funding for the TIGER program.
DC Streetsblog has more.

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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.