Thursday, January 15, 2009

City Street Department Head Answers Plow Questions


You may not know the man, but you may have cursed him lately. Mark Serbousek, head of the City of Spokane's Street Department, sat down with the Inlander lately to answer questions on the recent 'snow emergency' in Spokane and how his crews dealt with it.
Here's what Mark has to say about blocking your driveway, why you see plows driving around with their blades up, and why STA shut down some operations during the worst of the snow days.

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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.