2015 State Transportation Funding Initiatives
Washington isn't the only state fighting to have transportation funding legislation considered. Twenty-one other states are in the same boat, with more expected throughout the year.
The staff at the Transportation Investment Advocate have already tracked
48 transportation funding bills introduced in 2015, with over 70 bills in total pending legislative action. That's a lot of attention on transportation!
Eleven states are currently considering increasing their gas taxes, Michigan voters will decide on a ballot measure that would result in a transportation funding increase, and three states are currently considering legislation to protect their transportation funds. And there's lots more.
Here's a quick summary of everything that's happening from TransportationInvestment.com.
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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