I need ideas for my upcoming quarterly newsletter. Anyone have anything in particular transportation-wise that they want to know about or think should be publicized? I can’t promise I’ll use all suggestions as this newsletter is supposed to be about SRTC events and happenings for the most part, but I’m curious to see what’s on everyone’s minds.
I would like discussion/awareness about pedestrian crossing in downtown. Even when the traffic signal says "WALK" cars do not recognize the pedestrians right of way. I've had way too many close calls for this to be a few bad drivers.
Thanks Julie, consider it done. In fact, we've been talking about that this week in the thread titled 'Victim Blogs About Being Hit By Car.' You've got to figure that it's a big problem when 3 or 4 people at the same downtown Spokane company have all been hit by cars.
Perhaps talk about the reauthorizing the federal highway bill and where it could focus funds ala transit, multi-mode, technology integration? What the local region is doing to get itself prepared? Not super sexy but without the money…nothing gets done.
Thanks Anonymous. Jeff Selle in our office is our Manager of Government Affairs and PROMISED to put something together for me after the holidays about this. He's been out the past couple days but I'll check with him when he gets back to make sure he's working on it. A lot of people have a lot of questions regarding when the reauthorization is going to be passed, how much funding it will supply, if it's going to be heavy on non-motorized transportation or rail shipping and transporttion (both items we've heard rumors on), etc. etc. In other words, there are just a lot of unanswered questions all around regarding the bill. In the meantime, we're all just hanging out waiting to see what happens. Perhaps not super sexy, but its transportation, so tends to be a tad on the 'dowdy' side sometimes.