What Don't Drivers Understand About Pedestrians' Rights?
Spokane police officers wrote 52 citations in 1 1/2 hours during a sting operation near Gonzaga University last Tuesday! That's a LOT of tickets, and two-thirds of them were for failure to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
An editorial in the Spokesman today questions whether area drivers grasp the concept of pedestrians' rights.
Here's a link.
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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