University Adds "Texting Lane" to Stairwell
Do people really text while walking up or down stairs? Seems like that could be a good way to take a fall, but apparently it happens at Utah Valley University in Orem, UT. In fact it happens enough that the school divided a set of stairs there into three lanes- walking, running and texting.
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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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