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FY2018-27 TIP Update (30 minutes)
Aaron Cain, LPA Staff
Narrative
On June 22, 2017 NCDOT awarded CMAQ grants to DCHC MPO (see attached letter, revised July 31, 2017). All projects that were submitted and approved by the MPO were awarded their full funding request. In addition, the FY2018-27 Draft State Transportation Improvement Plan (STIP) was released on June 28, 2017. Several projects that were previously unfunded are now funded in the STIP (no DCHC projects were removed), which was approved by the State Board of Transportation last week. These projects are shown in the attached document.
The CMAQ and STIP projects, plus the STBDGA projects that have been reviewed by the MPO TC and Board, will form the Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP). On August 1, 2017, NCDOT notified LPA staff that the deadline for approval of the TIP has been pushed back to November 15, 2017. This will allow LPA staff to further develop the TIP for TC and Board review. Per the DCHC MPO Public Involvement Plan, the Draft TIP must be published for a 21-day public comment period prior to adoption by the MPO Board. LPA staff will ask the Board to release the Draft TIP for public review and comment at its October meeting and hold a public hearing at the November meeting, prior to adoption by the Board.
There are three carryover projects in the Draft STIP that the TC recommended removing from the TIP and scoring in the upcoming SPOT 5.0 process:
I-5702A - Managed lanes on I-40 from US-15/501 to the Durham Freeway;
I-5702B - Managed lanes on I-40 from the Durham Freeway to Wade Avenue; and
P-5710 - Grade separation of the Norfolk Southern line at Blackwell and Mangum streets.
Division 5 staff has concurred with not scoring P-5710 in SPOT 5.0. However, there is concern from NCDOT and CAMPO staff (whose concurrence is required for the removal of I-5702B) regarding the removal of the managed lanes projects. While equity concerns and issues with funding higher priority projects with...
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