Okay, this is crazy! It's a blog post from Greater Greater Washington about an intersection in the Washington, D.C. area that takes 8 1/2 minutes to cross legally to the other side of the road. And in the course of that crossing, you traverse 28(!!) lanes! No wonder two pedestrians were severely injured crossing the street there last week. Here's the story.
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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.
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On a related note, Streetsblog is looking for the worst intersections in the US: http://dc.streetsblog.org/2013/01/31/poll-the-hunt-for-the-worst-intersection-in-america-continues/
Wow, that will be interesting (and scary) to see what they come up with!
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