Planning plays a role in all of our lives. Whether it is career planning, travel planning, or deciding what to have for dinner, planning increases the likelihood of achieving our desired goals. Although the exact course is never known, a good plan can provide the guidance and direction needed to navigate through the unknown. Like other large organizations, Spokane Transit Authority (STA) also benefits from the process of preparing for the future. STA’s complexity requires goals to be set, principles to be acknowledged, and policies to be determined to best ensure the region’s envisioned future is realized.
Connect Spokane, STA’s comprehensive plan, is a guiding policy document, an educational tool, and a description of what transit may start to look like throughout the Spokane Region over the coming decades. As STA’s course-setting document created jointly with the public and partner government agencies, this plan guides future decisions related to transit, transportation and land use in the Spokane region.
Goal of the Comprehensive Plan Connect Spokane
The goal of this plan is to set forth a vision and policy framework to guide decisions made by STA’s Board of Directors, its staff, and partnering agencies that will further Spokane Transit’s mission and vision for at least the next 30 years.
STA strives to increase ridership while providing high quality, convenient and reasonably priced services by recognizing STA’s mission and by following the goals and policies defined in this plan.