WA State Transportation Plan Details Leaked
I've mentioned on this blog a couple times that Washington State lawmakers have been at work behind the scenes crafting a highway spending package. No one was sure what is included in that plan- until now. Someone leaked the details to the
Seattle Transit Blog and early reviews call it "the same type of expensive, cars-only policy that Washington residents have rejected in the past."
It allegedly reduces bike and pedestrian funding even further, adds new highway projects, and doesn't offer much in the way of public transit.
DC Streetsblog has more of the details on the supposedly "secret" plan.
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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