Spokane County Gets Grant For Market Street Improvements
Congratulations to Spokane County! The County's Division of Engineering and Roads has received a grant from the Transportation Improvement Board (TIB) Urban Arterial program to improve Market Street.
The $2.2 million project to be funded by this grant will reconstruct Market from Houston Ave. to Lincoln Road. This includes resurfacing and repairing existing sidewalk in segments where it's damaged on the west side of Market. On the east side, a new 5 1/2 foot wide sidewalk will be added. Curb ramps will also be rebuilt to meet ADA standards and a bicycle lane added to each side of the roadway.
To make room for this, the road will have a "road diet" where it's reduced from the four existing lanes to three lanes in that section.
The project is expected to be designed this March with construction scheduled for summer of next year (2016).
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.
2 comments:
That area really needs improvement, there is a lot less traffic now that the NSC is open to Francis, and someone on a bike would be taking a lot of risk in riding there now.
Too bad it couldn't be finished THIS summer instead of next.
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