Comment on regional projects that will affect you

The 30-Day Public Comment period for review of the Draft 2015-2018 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) is happening.

This comment period will remain open until Friday, July 18th at 4pm.

The TIP is an important piece of how capital transportation projects get funded in our region. Please take a few moments to review the document and provide comments on projects in your area.

Basically, you can see the upcoming projects in the region for the next few years. You can search the document for areas or projects that you are familiar with or that will affect you. For instance, if there a a road being redesigned, you can submit a comment that you’d like to see bike lanes or sidewalks in the redesign. Likewise, if there’s a project that you like, you can also let them know.

Unfortunately, the descriptions of the projects are really vague and don’t have any detail, so it’s difficult to know exactly what to comment on. However, it is useful to simply say that you use the area of a project, how you use it, and what you’d like to see.

Click to read a an informative Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about the TIP.

The TIP and its associated documents can be found here.

A list of SPC’s Draft TIP public meetings can be found below. For more complete information regarding the public meetings, a copy of the Draft 2015-2018 TIP advertisement which has appeared in regional newspapers, is also attached to this email.
July 14, 6:00 p.m., Allegheny County/City of Pittsburgh, SPC Conference Center, 4th Floor, Two Chatham Center, 112 Washington Place, Downtown Pittsburgh

June 19, 5:00 p.m., Westmoreland County Courthouse, Commissioners Meeting Room, 2 North Main Street, Greensburg

June 24, 5:00 p.m., Washington County Courthouse, Courthouse Square, Room 104,100 West Beau Street, Washington

June 25, 6:30 p.m., Armstrong County Courthouse, Commissioners Conference Room, 450 Market Street, Kittanning

July 2, 5:30 pm., Greene County, Waynesburg University, Third Floor, Stover Hall, Waynesburg

July 8, 5:00 p.m., Beaver County, Penn State Beaver Campus, Laboratory Classroom Building, Room 121, 100 University Drive, Monaca

July 9, 5:00 p.m., Lawrence County, Gettings Annex Building, 439 Countyline Street, New Castle

July 10, 5:00 p.m., Fayette County Chamber of Commerce, 65 West Main Street, Uniontown

July 15, 6:00 p.m., CareerLink of Indiana County, Conference Room, 300 Indian Springs Road, Indiana

July 16, 6:00 p.m., Butler County Government Center, 1st Floor, Public Meeting Room, 124 West Diamond Street, Butler

If you wish to make comments regarding the Draft TIP, you may use either the TIP Input Form or send your information to comments@spcregion.org.

Comments will also be received at public meetings, or by standard mail or fax (412) 391-9160. You may send comments via standard mail to:

Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission
Two Chatham Center
112 Washington Place, Suite 500
Pittsburgh, PA 15219-3451
c/o: 2015-2018 Draft TIP Comments

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