Article Calls Delay Request A Ploy To Run STA Plaza Out Of Downtown Spokane
The Spokane Transit Authority (STA) was all ready to move forward with a remodel of the downtown STA Plaza when the Downtown Spokane Partnership (DSP) and Greater Spokane Incorporated (GSI) last week asked to delay the renovation so they can have more time to come up with opinions and suggestions. Surprisingly (to me anyway), the STA Board agreed to wait.
An article in today's Spokesman-Review claims the delay is the business community's most recent ploy to drive the Plaza out of downtown Spokane because they don't like the clientele it brings into the central business district.
Here's the article by Shawn Vestal. Do you agree? Disagree?
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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.
2 comments:
I hope that is wrong, but it may be true. I watched the STA meeting on Channel 5 and I know STA is concerned by the loiters that the downtown businesses would hope to get rid of, but they might be sorry if the loiters just move to some place else.
STA moves a lot of people every day and leaving downtown would mean a lot less shoppers downtown.
It really doesn't make sense to move the Plaza out of downtown, considering it's the "hub" of the area. From what I've seen, things seem better since they put the smoking area back in, but I'm only there a couple times a week at most.
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