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 ...
MORGANTOWN -- The Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization Policy Board has adopted a new Transportation Improvement Program representing nearly a quarter billion dollars in transportation projects over the next five years. The body approved the federally mandated document ...
MORGANTOWN -- Kingwood-based Mountaineer Contractors seems to have cornered the market on Morgantown’s controversial roundabout projects. The same firm that was awarded a $2,091,104 contract in September to build an oval roundabout at the intersection of University Avenue and Collins ...
MORGANTOWN - A pedestrian bridge spanning Don Knotts Boulevard would create a safe, direct connection between a significant portion of the city’s population and both the riverfront and rail-trail network. It’s been a wish list item on every relevant planning document produced by the ...
MORGANTOWN -- It’s been discussed, debated, argued over, designed, contracted out and cancelled. Now it appears the roundabout planned for the angular intersection of University Avenue, Collins Ferry Road and Baldwin Street has come full circle. Mountaineer Contractors, out of ...
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 from two cities over, or maybe 150 miles away. That, in a nutshell, is the setup when it comes to traffic ...