Tuesday, January 22, 2013

New Service Lets You Text Parked Car Owners

Ever left a nasty note on someone's windshield because they parked so poorly that they took more than one spot? Or have you ever wanted to alert someone that there car is about to be towed cause they didn't pay the meter? San Francisco drivers can now alert each other to parking issues through a program called CurbTXT. Drivers sign up by registering their license plates and phone numbers. A sticker on the car gives people an anonymous way to contact the driver through text messaging by referencing the plate number. The service forwards the message to the owner.

There is, of course, some issues to work out. Here's more from CNET.

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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.