Megan Pillow | .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | Sept. 12, 2007

The future of transportation in Mooresville has been finalized—for the next 30 years or so, at least.

Mooresville commissioners recently approved the town’s new Comprehensive Transportation Plan, which covers all aspects of transportation in Mooresville through the year 2025.

The plan—designed by Mooresville’s transportation planner Chris Bauer, consultants from Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc., and representatives from the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT)—is a replacement for Mooresville’s last Thoroughfare Plan. That plan was developed in 1998 and, as a result of intensified growth, rendered obsolete.

The new plan stresses connectivity between various town streets; identifies possible “collector” streets that will likely experience increased traffic volume in the next few years; takes into consideration environmental features; offers suggestions for transit and freight services; and works in conjunction with the town’s new pedestrian plan and the town’s bicycle plan, currently in the process of development.

Bauer said the plan includes recommendations for 84 miles of existing roadways and for 23 proposed collector streets.
“We rely very heavily on just a few roads right now,” he told commissioners at their monthly meeting last week.

The plan also includes crucial observations of and recommendations for 11 of Mooresville’s most problematic intersections, called “strategic corridors:” Cornelius Road, Brawley School Road, Langtree Road, Mazeppa Road, N.C. 3, N.C. 115, N.C. 150 east and west, Perth Road, Statesville Road (U.S. 21), and Williamson Road.

The study area for both plans covers a 15-square-mile area containing 62,000 residents, including land outside the town limits that could conceivably be influenced or annexed within that time frame.

Bauer said the plan will seek approval from the Lake Norman Rural Planning Organization this fall.  He hopes that it can be sent to the state for adoption by December.

For more information on the transportation plan, visit http://www.mooresvilletomorrow.com

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