A History of Spokane's Streetcars
In the course of his research for Spokane Transit's Central City Line, the Spokesman-Review's Nick Deshais turned up a LOT of information on the history of Spokane's streetcars. Unfortunately for him, he couldn't use this cool stuff in his everyday reporting. But fortunately for us, he made a lot of it into a blog post instead.
So if you ever wondered how streetcars got their start in Spokane, and what happened to them, plus why a form of them is back
again, check out the Getting There blog here.
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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