A camping ban, panhandling laws, the collapse of Bartlett House. Public outcry, lawsuits, conflict. No single topic dominated Morgantown’s public discourse, and therefore headlines, in 2024 like the swirl of […]
Tag: West Virginia Division of Highways
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 […]
Study to decide fate of coveted pedestrian connection
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. […]
New DOH District 4 boss: We can make this work, together
MORGANTOWN — The relationship between local elected officials and the West Virginia Division of Highways has followed a recognizable pattern over the last decade-plus. It proceeds as such: Local frustrations […]
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 […]
Lights coming to Exit 155, Caperton Trail in summer 2025
MORGANTOWN — It now looks as if the temporary traffic lights planned for the I-79 Exit 155 off ramps might be operational by the end of next summer. An update […]
Exit 155 traffic light update has policy board members seeing red
MORGANTOWN — Almost exactly one year ago (Oct. 19, 2023) members of the Morgantown Monongalia Metropolitan Planning Organization Policy Board were told they would likely see temporary traffic lights going […]
Officials say I-79 acid spill did not threaten local water supply
MORGANTOWN — A representative of the West Virginia Division of Highways said samples taken by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection showed no evidence the acid spill that closed […]
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 […]
