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I should have put it over the water.
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Hello and welcome to the Longview MPO's
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10-day public comment period kickoff
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meeting. My name is Cal Magou, I'm a
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senior transportation planner with the
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Longview MPO.
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Uh we are welcoming public comment and
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review for the draft 2027 to 2030
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transportation improvement program, also
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known as the TIP.
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What is the transportation improvement
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program? It is a list of local projects
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to be funded within the Longview MPO
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area during the next 4 years, including
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those eligible for federal funding.
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It can include projects for mobility,
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pedestrian and bike, transit, and
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freight. And it shows a regional
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agreement on the need of a project.
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So, funding can come through three
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sources for these projects, the federal
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government, local governments, and
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TxDOT. It's a fiscally constrained list
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of projects,
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and fiscally constrained means it's
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realistic in terms of the amount of
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funding available, meaning
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the funding of these projects will not
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exceed the funding that is available.
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And so, in this TIP document, there are
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two different kinds of projects. There's
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the regionally significant projects,
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which could be mobility and bicycle and
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pedestrian projects, and these are
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projects that are significant enough to
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require their own stand-alone status.
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Then there's group projects that don't
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have the scale to stand on their own,
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and they can be grouped into one of 12
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subcategories.
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So, this is a map that shows the
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location of these projects for the 2027
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to 2030 transportation improvement
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program. The red line are the mobility
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projects, the more significant projects,
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and the blue is the group projects.
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» [snorts]
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>> So, the first of the mobility projects,
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or the more significant, is State
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Highway 42 widening,
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and it is from US Highway 80 to
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Interstate 20,
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and it's going to be widening from two
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to four lanes with a center turn lane,
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and it's coming in at $164 million and
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$80,000.
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The next is Loop 485 in Gladewater, and
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this is a $15 million $80,000 project,
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and it's from US 80 in Gladewater to US
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271.
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And then the third and last mobility
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project is US 271, and it's coming in at
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12 million 12 million 168,000,
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and it's from the Upshur County line to
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0.1 miles north of FM 2275
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south to South loop 485 in Gladewater.
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Or state loop 485, excuse me.
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And then the rest of the projects, the
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group projects that were illustrated by
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the blue in the map, there's 18 of them
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and they consist of seal coats,
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lighting, bridge maintenance, sidewalks,
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medians, and overlays.
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>> [snorts]
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» And then the document also includes
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transit projects.
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And for 2027, there's $6,451,614
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allocated.
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In 2028, there's $3,340,000
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allocated. In fiscal year 29, there's
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$3,550,000
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allocated. And in fiscal year 30,
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there's $3,577,500
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allocated.
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To visit to view the full draft
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document, please visit our website
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www.longviewtexas.gov/mpo.
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And how to provide your comments, you
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can mail your comments to the Longview
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MPO PO Box 1952 Longview, Texas 75606.
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You can email your comments to
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mpo@longviewtexas.gov
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or you can call and share your comments
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with us at 903-237-1062.
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And please remember to submit your
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comments by April 8th to be included in
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the official summary of this meeting.