Thursday, June 5, 2014

STA Wants Your Input On Their Plan For The Future

The Spokane Transit Authority is looking to the future with their Preliminary Draft 2014 Transit Development Plan (TDP), and they'd appreciate your input.   

The TDP is a planning document that 
contains the following:

  • 2014 Annual Strategic Plan
  • Service Implementation Plan covering 2015-2017
  • 2015 – 2020 Capital Improvement Program
  • Program of Projects for FTA Section 5307 Urbanized Formula Funding 
  • Information regarding Section 5339 (Bus and Bus Facilities) grant program and Section 5310 (Enhanced Mobility for Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities) grant program
  • Major equipment & rolling stock replacement activities
  • Operating and Financial Projections 
You can check out the plan here. And if you have any input to share on it, send it to Joel Soden, Transit Planner, Spokane Transit Authority, 1230 W Boone Ave., Spokane, WA 99201 or via email at jsoden@spokanetransit.com.  

Or you can attend a public meeting to learn more about it on June 19, 2014, at 1:30 p.m., in the Spokane Transit Authority Boardroom, 1229 W. Boone Ave, Spokane, Washington, 99201. 

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Just give us light rail and a real streetcar already. The modern electric trolleybus is unworkable without a U.S.-based manufacturer.

SRTC Staff said...

Thanks for the input Anthony, I'll pass it along! And good news on the modern electric trolleybus- a U.S. company agreed to produce one.


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.