If you want to know how vital the Hatch Bridge is, take a quick look at the detour its impending temporary closure will require.
When the city of Spokane shutters the brief span over Latah Creek in the spring to repair it, drivers will lose a vital connection from Highway 195 to the South Hill and will instead be directed to drive north on High Drive, get on Interstate 90 at Maple Street and head west before circling back down 195 to get where they are going.
The city is also considering a second, southern option that would send drivers down Hangman Valley Road and reconnect to Highway 195 at Smythe Road, though the exact path of that detour hasn’t been determined.
Spokane Wants to Switch to Electric Police Vehicles The City Council president is ready for the police department to change from gasoline to electric-powered vehicles, like Teslas, but some council members are wary and still unsure of a pilot program. Adam Shanks, The Spokesman-Review | December 11, 2020 | News
(TNS) Spokane, Wash., City Council President Breean Beggs is pushing the city to begin converting the Spokane Police Department fleet from gasoline to electric vehicles, but other city officials are warning he s moving too fast, too soon.
Beggs has been voicing frustration in recent weeks and wondering aloud why the city won t agree to pilot the use of four electric vehicles for the police department while it builds a long-term electrification plan.
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he way Spokane County Commissioner Al French tells it, state Rep. Marcus Riccelli was explicit about his plans when he pitched him on a bill to remake the county board, expanding the number from three countywide commissioners to five district-elected commissioners. Before he floated the bill in 2017, he and I had breakfast down at Perkins, French asserts. He told me straight to my face: He wanted to run for county commissioner. He says it with the tone of reciting an obvious fact that,
of course, everybody already knows. That s totally false, says Riccelli, D-Spokane. I have never expressed to Al French that I am running for county commissioner, he chuckles. He s not telling the truth.