Friday, March 9, 2012

$164 million for transportation projects

Yesterday (March 8) the Richmond region Metropolitan Planning Organization approved allocation of $164 million of federal funding for regional transportation programs over the next several years. Now all that has to happen is for Congress to appropriate those funds over the next several years. This morning's Richmond Times-Dispatch has an article, here, in the business section.

Not mentioned in the article was $200,000 to be expended in FY 2016 for a feasibility study for extending Tuckahoe Creek Parkway to Ridgefield Parkway. Although this was on the list of Goochland County projects, Henrico Supervisor Patricia O'Bannon said all the construction would be in Henrico, that 35 to 40 homes would have to be purchased to complete the project, that the connector is not in the Henrico comprehensive plan nor the Henrico thoroughfare plan, that she opposed it, and that it (the connector) was not feasible.

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