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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 Baldwin Street has come full circle. Mountaineer Contractors, out of ...

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 from two cities over, or maybe 150 miles away. That, in a nutshell, is the setup when it comes to traffic ...

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 to model that exact proposal as part of an ongoing effort to gauge the impacts to vehicle ...

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 regarding a pedestrian bridge over Don Knotts Boulevard.  The city of Morgantown has long ...

MPO should say no to WVDOT refund request

The West Virginia Department of Transportation wants to take back money that it promised for the Exit 155 reconstruction. The Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization Policy Board should tell it no. For years, Exit 155 on Interstate 79 was the main — if not the sole — ...