Two newspapers and a television station in the Seattle area combined to create an innovative, interactive and converged project to help educate local residents about communiting issues and help solve the region’s problems. The (Tacoma) News Tribune, The (Everett) Herald and KIRO-TV partnered on “Fix Your Commute,” which features an interactive online map that lets commuters choose the areas they think need the greatest traffic relief — in other words, a very fancy unscientific online survey. You can see the interactive map survey here. You can see the results here — about 2,500 users voted.
Along with the interactive Web site, the three news partners hosted public forums. And based on the results, the partners will put together an online simulation that factors in costs and funding and lets users decide which road projects they think should be done. Sounds like this will be a transportation version of the Everett Herald’s award-winning Waterfront Renaissance project.
Here are two more stories looking at the Fix the Commute project: from Poynter; and from J-lab.
Related headline: Read about The Seattle Times’ interactive transportation project.
