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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
University Avenue roundabout construction planned for March
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 […]
MPO to explore local control of traffic lights
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 […]
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 […]
