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NC 160/Steele Creek Road Widening Update. Steele Creek Residents Association February 27, 2014. CRTPO Overview. Formerly known as Mecklenburg-Union Metropolitan Planning Organization Responsible for transportation planning in Mecklenburg, Union and Iredell counties
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NC 160/Steele Creek Road Widening Update Steele Creek Residents Association February 27, 2014
CRTPO Overview • Formerly known as Mecklenburg-Union Metropolitan Planning Organization • Responsible for transportation planning in Mecklenburg, Union and Iredell counties • Core responsibility: allocation of federal transportation funds • Primary tasks • Metropolitan Transportation Plan • Transportation Improvement Program
2040 MTP 2040 Metropolitan Transportation Plan • 300 road projects ranked • Rankings endorsed by policy board October 2013
NCDOT Prioritization • Next step in process • Establishes priorities in Transportation Improvement Program • Steele Creek Road projects in database • Process steps • NCDOT assesses projects and issues scores (May) • CRTPO applies local points using approved methodology (May-July) • NCDOT develops draft state TIP (Sept-Oct) • Draft state TIP released in December
2040 MTP Comment Period Public comment period until March 19 Meetings • March 4 Char-Meck Main Library 4:30-6:30 PM • March 6 Indian Trail 5:00-7:00 PM • March 7 Charlotte Chamber 11:00 AM-1:00 PM crtpo.org