SRTC Planner Volunteers Time for Bike/Pedestrian Counts
SRTC Transportation Planner Mallory Atkinson recently joined with a lot of other volunteers to help out the Cascade Bicycle Club and the Washington State Department of Transportation gather data for the Washington State Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project.
For the past three years, Mallory has volunteered her time to help count bicyclists and pedestrians in downtown Spokane to track Washington's goal of getting more people out of cars and into other modes of transportation. This year, a reporter from the Inlander joined her and wrote an article about it.
You can read it here.
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.
SRTC Transportation Planner Mallory Atkinson recently joined with a lot of other volunteers to help out the Cascade Bicycle Club and the Washington State Department of Transportation gather data for the Washington State Bicycle and Pedestrian Documentation Project.
No comments:
Post a Comment