The Changing Attitude Toward Park and Ride Lots
First, they said "Ride the bus!" all the time. Now they're saying park and ride lots should be torn out? Mixed messages? It may be more a case of changing with the times. The city of Calgary is removing the majority of parking spots at one of it's lightrail park and ride lots and replacing it with mixed-use development. Why? Officials there say it's counter-intuitive to surround a walkable place such as a transit station with a sea of parking.
The Atlantic's City Lab has the details.
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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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