MORGANTOWN – The West Virginia Division of Highways has approved a request from the Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization Policy Board to use MPO funding to expedite improvements to the five-legged […]
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MPO Policy Board advances project to study greenbelt connections
MORGANTOWN – The Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization intends to approach its on-call consultants seeking preliminary engineering, cost estimates and an implementation plan tied to a portion of the Morgantown […]
Austin announces June 30 retirement as MPO executive director
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 the fiscal year. […]
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 […]
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 meeting, the Morgantown […]
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 few minutes into […]
Benson: University Avenue closure ‘a priority for our administration’
MORGANTOWN – You don’t need to be a traffic engineer to see the problem – a primary artery into and out of downtown Morgantown cuts through the most heavily traversed […]
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 who say they’d […]
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. The Mountain Line […]
‘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 155, members of […]
