A local regional transportation planning agency’s new Website is up and running at www.swmpo.org, according to Wicomico County planning official Gary R. Pusey. Mr. Pusey said that, “the Salisbury/Wicomico Metropolitan Planning Organization (S/W MPO) was founded in 2004 and it conducts transportation planning activities within an area that includes Salisbury, Fruitland, Delmar and portions of Wicomico and Sussex Counties.”
According to Pusey, the organization focuses its efforts on performing “corridor studies” that identify heavily-traveled roadways and developing improvement plans to handle anticipated growth through 2030. A complete study on Pemberton Drive can be viewed at the new Website. Currently, the “East Side Corridor Study (including South Division Street, College Avenue and Beaglin Park Drive)” is complete and will be available soon on the Website. Future studies include one on U.S. Route 13 North from the Salisbury Bypass to Delmar and another on Riverside Drive.
Wicomico County Executive Richard M. Pollitt, Jr., a former Vice Chairman of the MPO Council said, “I hope our citizens take the opportunity to visit this new Website. Increased traffic on our roads is one of the more obvious signs of the regional growth we’ve been experiencing in the last ten years.”
Mr. Pusey said that the S/W MPO is one of almost 400 MPOs nationwide. Authorized by federal legislation in 1962, an MPO is created when a region reaches a population of at least 50,000 persons with a density of at least 1,000 persons per square mile. The 2000 Census qualified the Greater Salisbury area for this designation. Funding is provided from the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Transit Agency and the Maryland Department of Transportation.
According to Pusey, the organization focuses its efforts on performing “corridor studies” that identify heavily-traveled roadways and developing improvement plans to handle anticipated growth through 2030. A complete study on Pemberton Drive can be viewed at the new Website. Currently, the “East Side Corridor Study (including South Division Street, College Avenue and Beaglin Park Drive)” is complete and will be available soon on the Website. Future studies include one on U.S. Route 13 North from the Salisbury Bypass to Delmar and another on Riverside Drive.
Wicomico County Executive Richard M. Pollitt, Jr., a former Vice Chairman of the MPO Council said, “I hope our citizens take the opportunity to visit this new Website. Increased traffic on our roads is one of the more obvious signs of the regional growth we’ve been experiencing in the last ten years.”
Mr. Pusey said that the S/W MPO is one of almost 400 MPOs nationwide. Authorized by federal legislation in 1962, an MPO is created when a region reaches a population of at least 50,000 persons with a density of at least 1,000 persons per square mile. The 2000 Census qualified the Greater Salisbury area for this designation. Funding is provided from the Federal Highway Administration, the Federal Transit Agency and the Maryland Department of Transportation.
Gary R. Pusey
doesnt he sell used cars too?
ReplyDeleteWhy does everything have to be Salisbury/Wicomico??
ReplyDeleteMayor Ireton, you said help was on the way so please change this. Let Salisbury be Salisbury and Wicomico be Wicomico.
ANON 11:14 AM,
ReplyDeleteIt's a different Gary Pusey-this one doesn't sell cars.
ANON 11:42 AM,
Trust me, it's better this way when it comes to planning. It alleviates having two Planning & Zoning offices and reduces staff, ultimately reducing costs to the taxpayers. It also allows the City and County to work in harmony with each other when it comes to planning. The Salisbury/Wicomico Planning and Zoning Department is the only dual agency in the County-do you have any complaints about their performance that would justify splitting the two?
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteANON 11:42 AM,
Trust me, it's better this way when it comes to planning. It alleviates having two Planning & Zoning offices and reduces staff, ultimately reducing costs to the taxpayers. It also allows the City and County to work in harmony with each other when it comes to planning. The Salisbury/Wicomico Planning and Zoning Department is the only dual agency in the County-do you have any complaints about their performance that would justify splitting the two?
12:26 PM
Trust you? Who are you?
P&Z is the biggest waste of tax dollars and does nothing but fund developments and projects in the city making the city entirely to congested. It is the biggest joke and Wicomico County needs its own identity. TRUST ME!!
Maybe the city should dissolve its charter and let the County take over everything. That my friend would save tax dollars.
What did Anon say to Anon? TRUST ME-ah, hahahahahahaha...LOL
ReplyDeleteP&Z doesn't actually fund developments, those would be funded by the developers...