Record Heat Causes Highway to Rupture
Yesterday's heat was so intense that it not only broke records across the area, it also broke an actual roadway!
The Spokesman-Review reports that a stretch of U.S. Highway 195 ruptured Monday, baking the pavement of the northbound lanes near Mullen Hill Road until it actually split.
Crews closed the highway until they were able to get it fixed early this morning.
The heat broke a 1931 record of 91 degrees.
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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