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FY2024-2033 Transportation Improvement Program (10 minutes)
Kelly Fomenko, LPA Staff
Narrative
On June 6, 2023, the North Carolina Board of Transportation adopted the FY2024-2033 State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). In order to implement the program, the MPO Board is required to adopt the FY2024-2033 DCHC MPO Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). The STIP and the TIP must match for the first four years of the program.
There are a handful of new projects or updates that do not yet appear in the FY2024-2033 TIP but are programmed in the FY2020-2029 TIP. The FY2024-2033 STIP was temporarily locked from any future changes around April so any amendments that have occurred to the FY2020-2029 STIP since that time will be reflected in Amendment #1 to the FY2024-2033 STIP, post-adoption. Once adopted, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) will review the STIP and TIP to ensure conformity. Once that review is complete, which is expected in September, the FY2024-2033 TIP will go into effect.
Per the MPO's Public Involvement Policy, the TIP was released for a 30-day public comment period on June 27, 2023 and concluded on July 26, 2023. The MPO received 85 public comments, which can be found in the attachments below. Most of these comments were in reference to two road widening projects in the STIP, those being I-5707 and U-5934. Comments also mentioned opposition to a widening of "Durham Freeway through Downtown," however project U-5937 is the only project on this segment and the project scope is to "construct auxiliary lanes and operational improvements." Details on those projects can be found in the attachments below. As a result of the July 26 TC meeting discussion, LPA staff have added an additional administrative modification to FY20-29 TIP amendment #16 which adds transit accommodations to the STIP description for U-5934.
A public hearing is scheduled for this item at today's meeting and several members of the public are signed up to sp...
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