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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 five-legged intersection of Point Marion, Stewartstown, Canyon and Farm View roads from its ...

MPO report crunches the numbers on metro area crash data

MORGANTOWN -- In the five-year span between 2019 and 2023, more than 10% of all vehicle crashes in the metropolitan area occurred on the roughly 3.5 mile stretch of WV 705 between Monongahela Boulevard and the Mileground roundabout. That’s 962 of 9,409 total wrecks. In that same ...

To prevent floods, need less concrete and more ‘sponges’

When MPO Executive Director Bill Austin met with The Dominion Post Editorial Board, he talked about building resiliency into the Metropolitan Transportation Plan. Resiliency is creating infrastructure that lasts, but also creating infrastructure that can survive a changing environment that ...

MPO seeks input for major transportation plan update

MORGANTOWN — Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization Executive Director Bill Austin is gearing up for a major update to the MPO’s Metropolitan Transportation Plan. Or, as he characterized it, an opportunity for “the big reset.” “I really think this is probably ...