Spokane Valley Wants Bridging the Valley Projects Built
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Bridging the Valley series of projects aimed at making rail crossings through Spokane Valley and into Idaho safer is seeing a renewed interest, despite a lack of funding to build the projects included in it.
An article in today's Spokesman-Review newspaper talks about the project, originally crafted by SRTC, and why Spokane Valley is pushing for those projects to be built a decade later. It also talks about the challenges to getting these bridges built, namely a lack of funding and coordination with railroads.
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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