We Are So A Transit City. Transportation Choices Said So
Wow, this is a really nice shout-out for Spokane, from someone on the west side of the state. In a blog post,
Transportation Choices, says Spokane may not have the traffic of the Puget Sound area and may be more culturally similar to cities in Montana, but we are indeed a transit city, despite what some people would tell you. He also crowns STA Planning Director Karl Otterstrom as a "transit hero."
Here's the post. It's interesting reading.
Andrew Austin, Policy Director at
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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