Downtown Snow Berms Are Back
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| Photo courtesy of the Spokesman-Review |
If you haven't been downtown today but are headed that way, be warned that there are snow berms in the streets. Spokane’s street crews plowed out downtown overnight, after two days of cars sliding around and getting stuck in six inches of snow that blanketed the area.
Usually the City of Spokane uses de-icer to clear downtown streets as it is a challenge to plow due to street parking. When there is too much snow though and that doesn't work, the streets are plowed to the middle, creating large berms. This makes it hard to change lanes and can cause you to miss turns, especially on one-way streets.
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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