MORGANTOWN – Imagine how difficult it must be to perfectly program timed traffic lights to optimize the flow of traffic in a densely populated urban area. Now imagine doing it […]
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Lights coming to Exit 155, Caperton Trail in summer 2025
MORGANTOWN — It now looks as if the temporary traffic lights planned for the I-79 Exit 155 off ramps might be operational by the end of next summer. An update […]
Exit 155 traffic light update has policy board members seeing red
MORGANTOWN — Almost exactly one year ago (Oct. 19, 2023) members of the Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization Policy Board were told they would likely see temporary traffic lights going […]
Steering committee wants to explore ‘what-if’ traffic scenarios
MORGANTOWN — Imagine what Morgantown traffic would look like if WVU’s downtown campus was off limits to vehicles. A steering committee of local stakeholders doesn’t want to imagine. It wants […]
MPO to study Don Knotts pedestrian bridge
Is it feasible and where should it go? The Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization Policy Board on Thursday approved the scope of work for a study to answer those questions […]
Exit 155 work now $110 million, Chaplin Hill improvements not included
MORGANTOWN — In 2019, the state of West Virginia said it was committing $66 million to reconfigure I-79 Exit 155. Working with the county and developer WestRidge, the state said […]
State now hopeful Exit 155 traffic lights can go up this fall
MORGANTOWN — Donna Hardy came to Thursday’s Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization Policy Board meeting to talk about vulnerable road users. She left with an earful about traffic lights at […]
Community garden program a requirement of Green Bag Road project
MORGANTOWN — Call it Green Bag’s gardening greenbacks. Or, maybe, seed money. Whatever it’s called, members of the Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization’s Policy Board are hopeful an environmental requirement to […]
Monongahela River receives Marine Highway designation M-79
MORGANTOWN — Monongahela River might be its given name, but you can call it M-79 for short. Late last week, the United States Department of Transportation Maritime Administration announced it […]
DOH ‘Alternative 3’ looks to be early favorite for new Mon River bridge
MORGANTOWN — It was publicly announced last week that the West Virginia Division of Highways plans to build a bridge across the Monongahela River in the next 28 months. The […]
