Senate Majority Leader Supports Gas Tax Increase
Washington State Senate Majority Leader Rodney Tom yesterday lent support to the proposed state gas tax increase. He said he would support an increase to fund road projects and that, "If you want new roads, you pay for new roads. There's a direct nexus there."
He singled out transportation and education as two areas that we need to focus on.
The Olympian has 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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