WA First State DOT to Adopt Manual That Encourages Bike/Ped and Transit Innovations
This is pretty cool! The Washington state Department of Transportation is the first state DOT to
endorse the
Urban
Street Design Guide put out by the National Association of City
Transportation Officials’ (NACTO).
The manual provides instruction on creating
treatments like protected bike lanes, transit-priority streets, and parklets,
which aren’t included in standard American engineering guides.
Lack of official recognition by
state DOTs can make it difficult to install some amenities, especially
on streets classified as state highways. But Washington cities and towns will have more flexibility to do so.
Here's more from DC Streetsblog.
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.
This is pretty cool! The Washington state Department of Transportation is the first state DOT to
endorse the Urban
Street Design Guide put out by the National Association of City
Transportation Officials’ (NACTO). 
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