Seattle Thanks It's Vigilantes For Making A Statement About Road Safety
I've been hearing a lot in the past couple years about "guerrillas" that take matters into their own hands in the name of public safety and paint their own crosswalks or bike lanes. In most cases, the city where they're located removes the homemade "improvements" but Seattle recently took a different tack.
This spring, a group of activists calling themselves “Reasonably Polite Seattleites” made some major improvements to a bike lane on Cherry Street.
Instead of freaking out, the City Engineer proved to be sympathetic to the group's cause.
Here's what he did.
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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