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Study: Beechurst changes must come before Grumbein's Island goes

MORGANTOWN – What’s it going to take to close Grumbein’s Island? The blessing of the West Virginia Division of Highways for starters, and likely more than $50 million worth of projects along Beechurst Avenue and other locations in and around downtown Morgantown. Those were some of ...

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 ...

Green Bag roundabouts tied up in court

MORGANTOWN -- For anyone who’s been following the Green Bag Road saga, it likely comes as no surprise that the project to construct a pair of roundabouts finds itself parked in court. West Virginia Division of Highways District 4 Manager Earl Gaskins explained as much during a recent ...

Green Bag project awarded for 2025 construction season

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 ...

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 ...

Bus drivers 'scared to death' over Green Bag roundabouts

MORGANTOWN -- Nineteen school bus drivers signed their names to a letter asking the West Virginia Division of Highways to reconsider its plan to build roundabouts on Green Bag Road.  “We are a group of concerned school bus drivers who drive this route in Morgantown daily,” the letter ...

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