Spokane Pedestrian Plan Wins Award
Congratulations to the City of Spokane! The City's new Pedestrian Master Plan was recently rewarded a Judge’s Merit Award as part of Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s Smart Communities Awards Program.
According to the City's blog, the plan was recognized for supporting a more walkable Spokane, encouraging a walking environment that supports increased physical activity, connections to transit, and more transportation options for all.
The full list of winners is available on the Washington state Department of Commerce’s web site. The awards program recognizes outstanding efforts of counties, cities, and towns, and their partners throughout the state to create quality communities by achieving the goals of the Growth Management Act and other community development objectives.
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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