Proposed FY 2019-2022 Transportation Improvement Program ready to view for public comment
Below is a link to the proposed FY 2019-2022 Transportation Improvement Program. The public comment period will end on April 16, 2018. Comments and questions are welcome by calling the office at (302) 387-6026 or (302) 387-6030, and by email to kate.layton@doverkentmpo.org or doverkentmpo@gmail.com. Thank you.
FY2019-2022 TIP for pub 4-19-2018
Public comment period on draft FY 2019-2022 TIP starts March 16
The Dover/Kent County Metropolitan Planning Organization will hold a public comment period for its draft FY 2019-2022 Transportation Improvement Program from March 16 to April 16. The MPO will seek approval from Public Advisory Committee, Technical Advisory Committee and its policy-making body, the MPO Council at an April 19 meeting.
The MPO’s draft Transportation Improvement Program for FY 2019-2022 includes more than $119 million in road, bridge, and other projects in central Delaware over the next four fiscal years. Some highlights of this TIP include the continuation or completion of projects that have been in the planning and/or construction process for some time.
A few highlighted projects in the draft TIP include:
- Improvements to Walnut Shade Road between U.S. 13 and Peachtree Run
- Completion of grade separated intersections at Route 1/South Frederica; Route 1/Little Heaven; and the start of construction of Route 1/Northeast Front Street in Milford
- Continued planning for the proposed widening of U.S. 13 Puncheon Run to Lochmeath Way, as well as between Lochmeath Way and Walnut Shade Road
- Continued design of Crawford Carroll Road extension, Kenton Road improvements, and the Camden Bypass
- Bridge rehabilitation projects
- Bike and pedestrian improvements (including the Senator Bikeway, West Street Trail, and Brecknock Park Trail connector)
- Improvements to Kenton Road and College Road in Dover
- Improvements around the intersection of Loockerman and Forest streets in Dover
The TIP represents the first few years of the MPO’s long-range Metropolitan Transportation Plan. Projects in the TIP are ones for which the Delaware Department of Transportation wants to secure federal funding. The TIP also serves as a budgetary guide for how much money will be spent on each project.
A project’s inclusion in the TIP does not guarantee construction will start within the TIP’s time span, although designers and planners could be busy behind the scenes on a project.
A copy of the draft TIP is now available here. Comments and questions are welcome by calling (302) 387-6026 or (302) 387-6030, or via e-mail: kate.layton@doverkentmpo.org or doverkentmpo@gmail.com.
Downtown Dover Parking Study available
Downtown Dover Parking Study now available
The Downtown Dover Parking Study is an initiative of the City of Dover and the Dover / Kent County Metropolitan Planning Organization (DKCMPO), in partnership with the Downtown Dover Partnership (DDP). These partners retained our consulting team, led by Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc. (Langan) and with KSK Architects Planners and Historians, Inc. (KSK), to take a fresh look at the issue of parking downtown, and to come up with a series of recommendations that would be updated from the last time a parking study was conducted in 2004 and would reinforce attempts to redevelop and bring fresh vitality downtown.The primary study area for this new study was bound by Water Street to the south, West Street to the west, Fulton Street to the north and State Street to the east. Additionally we also studied the area around the City Hall Lot which is bound by State Street to the west, Division Street to the north, Water Street to the south and Park Drive to the east.
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