SRTC launches online survey on spending

How would you spend $50 million on local transportation? That’s the question the Spokane Regional Transportation Council is asking residents through a new online survey tool that demonstrates the difficult financial tradeoffs that must be made to maintain and improve the regional transportation system.

SRTC is the government agency responsible for transportation planning for the area covered by Spokane County. New federal and state regulations require organizations like SRTC to create and track performance measures and targets to ensure the transportation system is developing as planned. This is being done through a project called the “Horizon 2040 Implementation Toolkit.”

Horizon 2040 is the region’s long-term transportation plan that guides how the transportation system will grow between today and the year 2040. The Horizon 2040 Implementation Toolkit will identify measures and targets that can be measured using available data relating to Horizon 2040’s Guiding Principles.

A link to the tool can be found at http://www.srtc.org It takes about 5 – 10 minutes to use.