The list, released last month and slated for approval next month, is a collection of improvements that have been needed for decades, neighbors argue. 

A bridge over Interstate 90 west of downtown Spokane probably isn’t noticed much by motorists traveling under it.

Three options have emerged for the Children of the Sun trail connecting Hillyard to the East Central neighborhood as work on the North Spokane Corridor heats up over the next several years. One would include elevating the trail alongside the interstate, but bike and pedestrian interests are less than enthused about the idea.

Federal regulations concerning competition against private charters may limit what the public transit authority can do to help the issue facing Spokane schools. But the agencies are trying to work together to ease students' delays in getting to school. 

Closing the short on-ramp near the Thor/Freya couplet will speed up rush hour drive time on the freeway, but would make for longer pauses for cars hoping to merge at the next ramp to the east, traffic planners said. 

With the backing of the city of Spokane and support from City Councilwoman Betsy Wilkerson, the East Central neighborhood council and others, WSDOT recently submitted a grant that would allocate $1.3 million to “look at the potential of a land bridge across I-90.” 

Shannon Benn went door to door, soliciting input from her neighbors in Minnehaha.

The arrival of the City Line in neighborhoods including Logan and Chief Garry is coinciding with efforts to allow denser development along rapid transit lines within city limits. 

Spokane's $81 million in pandemic-relief money could be spent in many ways. Survey respondents have put a protected bike lane network on the list of desired projects, and a potential connection in West Central could be one of many steps toward making that system a reality. 

Early planning work 15 years ago established a price tag and some early ideas of what light rail might look like between Spokane and Coeur d'Alene. A pair of advisory votes effectively killed that momentum. Now, the backers of that original planning say it's time to dust off those documents.

An analysis of options to connect the northern terminus of the trail with existing systems in Spokane ends without a final recommendation. But city planners say they believe they've come up with one that allays all concerns about the safety of cyclists and other trail users. 

Some predict that computing will reach a singularity in 2045, as computers become smarter than humans. Meanwhile, local transportation planners are looking at that year and prioritizing what work will need to be done to accommodate a rapidly growing population. 

It's safe to say people aren't moving in droves to North Idaho because they want to sit in gridlocked traffic.

If central Spokane Valley's intersections were a high school student, he would be sitting in the back of the class, head down, barely scraping by. And his prospects for graduating would be grim. 

Lime announced a milestone in mid-June: 1 million rides had been taken on its scooters and bikes in Spokane since they first arrived in 2018.

There's no single source of the greenhouse gases that are warming our planet, and there's no definitive way to tie the Pacific Northwest's recent heat wave to those gases. But ample evidence indicates Spokane is getting hotter and drier, and that gas-guzzling vehicles are a major source of carbon emissions in our area. 

Since breaking ground on the $1.5 billion North Spokane Corridor in 2001, WSDOT has made about 5 miles of progress and opened the NSC from its northern terminus to Freya Street, north of Francis Avenue. But the department still has about 5 miles and eight years to go.

Suggestions for how to improve the pocky road running along the Spokane River bluff in northeast Spokane included telescopes for amateur stargazers. Other suggestions focus on improving access for cyclists and a smoother ride for motorists.