Interesting Sunday in Portland...
Check this story out. The city of Portland shutdown a 6-mile loop to automobiles on Sunday and it went over pretty well. Apparently they tied the bike and pedestrian holiday into a series of festive events along the auto-free loop. I've heard some talk of trying this on a couple of streets in Spokane. Some people have even mentioned trying to do it on the entire downtown network on a sunny Sunday afternoon to see how it goes over.
What do you think? Does Spokane have enough interest in bicycling to pull something like this off?
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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