Tuesday, February 12, 2013

State Of The Union Not Expected To Tackle Transportation

I have a game called Buzzword Bingo I play with some of my nerdier friends where we watch a speech or television show and cross off certain words on a bingo grid whenever their spokane. First one to get a straight line of words gets the bingo.

Well, if you're planning to do that tonight with transportation terms during the President's State of the Union Address, don't bother. While transportation is a huge issue right now and infrastructure is a hot topic, transportation is rarely referenced in the State of the Union according to Transportation Issues Daily, and here's why.







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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.