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STEELE CREEK NEWS
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Support of Funding for Highway 160 Project
This is YOUR Opportunity to Impact Funding Decisions
 (May
8, 2016)
The Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization (CRTPO)
has opened a 26-day public comment period that ends on June 1 to obtain public input on
its draft list of projects that are proposed to receive local input
points as part of the North Carolina Department of Transportation's
(NCDOT’s)
Prioritization 4.0 (P4.0) process.
Prioritization is NCDOT’s decision making tool for developing the
next Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), which is a listing of
projects to be funded and delivered within an upcoming five-year
work period.
CRTPO is proposing to
assign local input points to the widening of Highway 160 from South
Tryon Street south to the South Carolina state line. This project is
listed 10th on the draft list of projects on the Regional Impact
Tier. Click
HERE to see the full list. Click
HERE or on the map below to see a map showing Regional Impact projects.
 In
addition, Division 10 of NCDOT also plans to assign local input
points to supplement the P4.0 scores for this Highway 160 project.
The local input
points will help ensure that this widening project will receive
strong consideration for inclusion on
the next State TIP to be approved in fall 2017. Your comments will encourage CRTPO
to continue to maintain the Highway 160 project among the priority
projects.
Please send your
comments of support BY JUNE 1 to Neil Burke of the CRTPO staff at
info@crtpo.org; or by mail to CRTPO, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center, 600 E. Fourth St., 8th floor, Charlotte, NC 28202;
or by fax to 704-336-5123. You may also submit your comments at
a public meeting at the Government Center beginning at 4:30 on May
18 or speak at the regular CRTPO Board meeting at 6:00 that evening.
See the press release below for details.
Two other Highway
160 projects will receive funding in the current TIP. Construction
is expected to begin in 2017 on improvements to the intersection of
Hamilton Road and Highway 160, and the right-of-way acquisition for
the widening of Highway 160 from Shopton Road West to South Tryon
Street is now scheduled to begin in 2020 with construction beginning
in 2022. Construction is now underway in South Carolina to widen
Highway 160 from the state line south to Gold Hill Road.
Public input begins on CRTPO’s Regional Impact projects for
NCDOT’s Prioritization 4.0
CHARLOTTE,
N.C. (May 6, 2016) – The Charlotte Regional Transportation
Planning Organization (CRTPO) is requesting public input on
the next stage of developing future Regional Impact
transportation projects for Iredell, Mecklenburg and Union
Counties. This process is administered by NCDOT and is
called “Prioritization 4.0.” CRTPO is the
federally-designated Metropolitan Planning Organization
(MPO) for the Charlotte urbanized area.
Highway, rail
and transit projects are all represented on the draft lists
proposed for Regional Impact local input point assignment on
the CRTPO website (www.crtpo.org) at the link labeled
“Prioritization 4.0.” Regional Impact highway projects
consist of U.S. and North Carolina routes (i.e. US 21, US
74, NC 73 and NC 160), regional transit and rail projects.
Beginning in September 2016, CRTPO will open a separate
public involvement period for the Division Needs projects,
which include road projects on the secondary road system as
well as bicycle and pedestrian, rail, transit and aviation
projects.
The North Carolina Department of
Transportation (NCDOT) has scored projects submitted by
MPOs, RPOs and NCDOT Divisions according to formulas
established under the Strategic Transportation Investments
(STI) law. CRTPO has 2,500 local input points to allocate to
its projects within the Regional Impact tier and an
additional 2,500 points to allocate within the Division
Needs tier of STI. The STI legislation specifies that MPOs,
RPOs and NCDOT Division offices must adhere to their adopted
methodologies to the extent possible when assigning local
input points.
This public input period will close on
Wed., June 1. Comments should be directed to Neil Burke
using the following methods:
E-Mail: info@crtpo.org
Regular Mail: CRTPO
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center
600 E. Fourth St., 8th floor
Charlotte, NC 28202
FAX: 704-336-5123
Members of the public can also
comment on the proposed project lists in person during a
public meeting held in Room 270/271 of the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center from 4:30 to 6:00
p.m. on Wed. May 18 and/or during the CRTPO Board meeting on
Wed. May 18. The CRTPO Board meeting will be held in Room
267 of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center beginning
at 6 p.m. Those who wish to speak must sign up at least five
minutes prior to the start of the meeting.
The
Strategic Transportation Investments law has created a
quantitative, data-driven approach to develop the Statewide
Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) and its local
counterpart, the locally-adopted Metropolitan TIP. As a
result, the most important opportunities for public
involvement in Prioritization 4.0 are when CRTPO selects
projects for consideration, (which occurred in Sept. 2015)
and when CRTPO provides input on the final priority of
projects, which occurs when the MPO votes on the Regional
Impact project list during the June 15, 2016 meeting and the
Division Needs project list during the Oct. 19, 2016
meeting.
The final product of Prioritization 4.0, the
Transportation Improvement Program for FY18-FY27, will be
adopted by CRTPO in 2017.
More information is
available on the CRTPO website at
www.crtpo.org. |
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