The Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization is the regional transportation planning agency for the lower Cape Fear region of southeastern North Carolina. The WMPO facilitates a cooperative, comprehensive, and continuing transportation planning process that serves as the basis for the expenditure of all federal transportation funds in the area for streets, highways, bridges, public transit, and bicycle and pedestrian facilities.
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The WMPO will be hosting a training session for the upcoming FY17 call for projects for the Surface Transportation Block Grant Program. NCDOT, FHWA, and the WMPO will be presenting the various topics. The session will be from 9 am – noon at 320 Chestnut Street in the 6th Floor Conference Room. For more information, please contact Tim Lowe at 910-473-5113 or by email.
10:00 am in the Lord Spencer Compton Conference Room at Wilmington City Hall
3:00 pm in the Cape Fear Training Room at 102 Town Hall Drive in Leland, North Carolina
The Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization collects traffic counts on an annual basis. This map identifies locations and traffic count data for the WMPO planning area.
This project will widen North & South Kerr Avenue between Martin Luther King, Jr. Parkway and Patrick Avenue. The widened roadway will include four travel lanes, bicycle lanes, a landscaped median and and sidewalks. The bicycle lanes and sidewalks will be funded by the City of Wilmington.
The project consists of the construction of intersection re-alignment improvements at Wrightsville Avenue/Greenville Avenue including bike lanes and sidewalks along Greenville Avenue from Wrightsville Avenue to Hinton Avenue.
The construction of 5 foot wide concrete sidewalk adjacent to Old Fayetteville Road from Ricefield Branch Road to the Hwy 74/76 overpass after Glendale Drive with connections to Leland Middle School and the surrounding neighborhoods.