Roundup of Local Transportation Topics
People under 30 are four times more likely to ride transit than people over 60, according to a national report from the TransitCenter organization. STA is hosting a telephone town hall meeting to take questions and comments about developing the central city line and high-performance transit. And Airway Heights landed a $363,000 loan and a $175,000 grant to build a half-mile rail siding and a 60,000-square-foot building to support expansion of Seaport Steel and Brown Strauss Steel.
The Spokesman-Review has a roundup of local transportation news in today's Getting There column.
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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