Study Says Area Bad Roads Are Hitting You Where It Hurts- In the Wallet
Not to sound like a broken record, but our local roads aren't in great shape. We told you that when developing our
long term tranpsortation plan Horizon 2040, and now a new study by national transportation research group TRIP is telling you that.
TRIP says damaged roads costs the average Spokane driver $1,423 a year in increased maintenance, fuel, traffic accidents and time lost in traffic. But there's also costs incurred by collisions and the cost to the economy that bad roads take.
The Spokesman-Review looks at the numbers.
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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