Monday, June 3, 2013

Project Will Beautify Spokane's "Gateways"

If you've walked around downtown Spokane at all, you know there are some places that are not the most pedestrian-friendly. Sometimes it's because sidewalks are broken or dangerous or traffic is rushing by at high speeds, making it uncomfortable to walk in areas. Other times though, it's just a feeling you get. There's one particular underpass in downtown Spokane that makes me nervous to walk under because it is gray and dingy, smells like urine and there are broken liquor bottles all over.

Well, Spokane city officials are doing something about it, moving forward with a plan to paint and upgrade downtown underpasses under I-90 and the railroad bridges.


The effort is focused on improving the appearance of freeway exits at Division, Lincoln and Maple streets, as well as 18 railway underpasses. So where will the money come from for this project and what will it pay for? The Spokesman-Review has the details.

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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.