Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Lowest Amount Of Highway Deaths In 48 Years

The nation's highways experienced the least amount of driving deaths last year since the year 1961! So why the decline in fatal accidents? Some say it's the economy forcing people to drive less, but this Spokesman-Review editorial contends it's something much simpler- seatbelt laws.
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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.