Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Did you see the smoke?


A grass-and-timber fire sent smoke over Interstate 90 near Spokane and caused intermittent lane closures on westbound lanes, the Spokesman Reveiw reported Monday afternoon.

The fire was called in shortly after noon and started in the vicinity of milepost 276 on the north side of the freeway near the Geiger Boulevard exit.

The state patrol, the state Department of Transportation and fire crews responded to the scene, and the fire was brought under control after more than an hour.

You know what is cool about this story. The Spokesman Review linked to our new SRTMC web site so their readers could view the fire live. it's always nice to feel needed in that way... Ok, here is the SRTMC website just in case you are interested.
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2 comments:

vanillajane said...

Just so you know, I read your blog every day.

The Spokes should too.

You guys rock.

August 11, 2009 at 10:20 PM
SRTC Staff said...

Woo. Hoo. We have our first groupie!

August 12, 2009 at 8:55 AM

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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.