Motorists May Be Asked To Voluntarily Pay Extra $5 Per Year To Keep Parks Open
In a move designed to stave off the closure of dozens of state parks, the state House of Representatives yesterday voted to ask motorists to pay an extra $5 a year per car.
House Bill 2339 now goes to the Senate. If half the state’s residents pay the fee — which would be voluntary — it would raise about $28 million for parks over the next two years.
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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.
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