Early Congestion Warning
Officials are predicting that two big events scheduled for the same night in Spokane could make for traffic gridlock.
Read how the annual Lilac Parade and a Shock game could cause some major inconvenience, and give us your opinion;
should the Shock game have been cancelled? And I know there are permitting and coordination process in place, so how does something like this happen? Just an oversight??
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.
2 comments:
I bought tickets for the Shock game. Will I need to leave home early?
I would if I were you. I grew up here and have always had the mentality that it's Spokane, you can get anywhere in town in 15 minutes so never leave with extra time. Lately I've been late for a lot of things. It wasn't all at once that I noticed it, but all of a sudden it just clicked with me that there's a lot more traffic than there used to be and people actually DO come out for events. I've attended several events downtown recently, and there have been traffic delays for all of them. And when you consider that there will be TWO events this time, I'd play it safe if you want to see the kickoff.
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