Morgantown's Traffic is Increasing Radically on an Ongoing Basis (Fairmont: university, move)
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The city installed traffic counters on several intersections and monitored traffic 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, for comparisons from year to year. Average traffic count has increased dramatically during the past year alone due to development in the area.
Remember how we talked about the need for a connector from Cheat Lake area around the north side of Morgantown and reconnecting with I79? Do you think that would alleviate some of the main artery congestion in the city if there were 3 or four exits staged properly off that connector route? I've been thinking about it and I feel that would be a good start. It would move traffic flow in all directions in and out if the city, instead of the bottlenecks they have now. I'm sure that idea isn't perfect, but it could work. Any other ideas? Lets brainstorm and see what we can come up with!
It'd be great to have a mini beltway like that - to determine its usefulness I'd like to see where most of the workday congestion is coming from. The question to me is where are most of the folks coming from I79 near Star City originating their commute? PA or Fairmont area or elsewhere?
Wish the West Run Expressway got built before all the development happened out there. Will 705 finally becoming 4 lanes from Mon Boulevard to Rt 119, it will help with the congestion.
A big oops with the state/city/county , in my opinion, was not making Beechurst 4-5 lanes when the opportunity was there. A north-south corridor would've been perfect. Perhaps they could just remove the turn lane like over on Mon Blvd so at least one lane of traffic can continue to flow. Then fix where University becomes 2 lanes and we would have a pretty good connector to I-79 from downtown.
Remember how we talked about the need for a connector from Cheat Lake area around the north side of Morgantown and reconnecting with I79? Do you think that would alleviate some of the main artery congestion in the city if there were 3 or four exits staged properly off that connector route? I've been thinking about it and I feel that would be a good start. It would move traffic flow in all directions in and out if the city, instead of the bottlenecks they have now. I'm sure that idea isn't perfect, but it could work. Any other ideas? Lets brainstorm and see what we can come up with!
How about the state fulfills its obligations and improves the inadequate highways they are responsible for?
Wish the West Run Expressway got built before all the development happened out there. Will 705 finally becoming 4 lanes from Mon Boulevard to Rt 119, it will help with the congestion.
Current thinking is the state will try to short change us on funding. Mileground will be expanded down to Point Marion Road, but Beechurst will likely stay 3 lanes with improvements to Van Voorhis and West Run being made 3 lanes. Those would be improvements, but far short of what is actually needed.
I don't think Silk's notion of a beltway will take place any time soon. The state is too busy p*ssing money down the drain on roads to nowhere to actually take on a realistic approach. We've gained enough political clout to force them to take some action, but it will take the next census to really get the ball rolling on improvements needed here.
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