MORGANTOWN – Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization Executive Director Bill Austin told the MPO Policy Board Thursday evening that he intends to retire at the end of […]
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MPO directs funding for ‘failing’ Point Marion Road intersection
MORGANTOWN – As part of its most recent update to the area’s Metropolitan Transportation Plan, the Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization Policy Board removed improvements to the […]
Grumbein’s Island closure a priority of updated transportation plan
MORGANTOWN – The body that steers transportation planning for the greater Morgantown area has updated its long-range vision for vehicle and pedestrian mobility. During its most recent […]
At long last, feds green light I-79 Harmony Grove interchange
MORGANTOWN – They say timing is everything. That was the case Thursday evening when Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization Policy Board Chair Russ Rogerson’s phone buzzed a […]
A PRT looks at 50: WVU’s ‘Ride of the Future’ still moving people
MORGANTOWN – They would never admit it, but the folks responsible for keeping West Virginia University’s little blue Personal Rapid Transit cuboids (PRT) plugging along must certainly […]
Policy makers want a closer look at plans to close Grumbein’s Island
MORGANTOWN — Sometimes you’ve just got to see it to believe it. So it goes with some members of the Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization Policy Board […]
MPO holding first public planning session Tuesday at Mountain Line
MORGANTOWN — The Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization is once again asking the community to get involved in planning for the future of the area’s transportation system. […]
‘Highly unlikely’ Exit 155 traffic lights in place before fall
MORGANTOWN — In October 2023, when it was first announced that two sets of temporary traffic lights were likely coming to Chaplin Hill Road at I-79 Exit […]
Morrisey: Massive culture change needed on roads
BRIDGEPORT – Broken roads. Broken bridges, Broken system. Broke. Gov. Patrick Morrisey traveled to the heart of road condition discontent on Monday to announce what he’s calling […]
MPO accepts Don Knotts pedestrian bridge feasibility study
MORGANTOWN — In October 2023, the Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization was prepared to steer $400,000 in Transportation Block Grant dollars into engineering a pedestrian bridge spanning […]
