Monday, March 31, 2008

'Rare Find' or SRTC Door Stopper?


Since all of our transportation problems basically come down to a lack of funding, I think I've found yet another solution to our problems. I found an ad on Ebay for this book called 'Metropolitan Transportation Problems' by Wilfred Owen from 1968. The ad states that it is a 'Rare find!' Well, here in the SRTC offices, we have shelves and shelves of 'rare finds' like this. The starting bid on this one is $9.99, so if we got at least $10 for every old study we have sitting around this place, we could finish the NSC tomorrow!

Here's the whole ad if you're interested in bidding or just want to know how planners proposed to solve transportation problems back in 1968.
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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.