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