Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Refinements to US 2 Safety Improvements

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has been studying the situation on US 2 just north of Spokane for a while now. Increased commercial and residential development there has caused traffic volumes to increase by nearly 9 percent in the last 10 years. As a result, collisions related to traffic congestion are on the rise.

In late 2014, WSDOT announced several potential changes to the lane configuration on US 2 between the SR 206 intersection and Day-Mt. Spokane Road.  Citizen and business owners followed up with questions, concerns, and comments on the design, giving WSDOT planners some additional challenges to work through.

On Thursday, March 12, the Washington State Department of Transportation wants to get everyone back together again for a public open house to present the new design refinements for this section of US 2. 

Here are the details:

5 – 8 p.m., Thursday, Mar. 12, 2015
Mountainside Middle School
4717 E. Day-Mt. Spokane Rd., Colbert, WA


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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.