Government Shutdown Closes Popular D.C. Bike Trail
Here's a side effect of the government shutdown that never occured to me- a popular bike trail, used heavily by bike commuters, is shut down because it's managed by the National Park Service, which has had to shut down all National Parks.
The Capital Crescent Trail is the most heavily-used rail-trail in the United
States, with over a million users a year.
Apparently a lot of bicyclists aren't letting a chain across the trail deter them and they're just going around it to continue to use the trail.
DC Streetsblog 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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