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.
More About Us Meet The BoardView the final study by The City of Wilmington, the Wilmington MPO, and NCDOT, who directed a study be performed to investigate the feasibility of realigning the existing CSXT railroad line providing a new location for rail access to the port and the potential of repurposing the existing CSXT railroad corridor for transit use.
On March 29, 2017 the WMPO Board adopted the FY2018 UPWP. This document serves as the budget and guide for planning activities and efforts that the WMPO will undertake for the fiscal year.
In a joint cooperative effort with the City of Wilmington, Wilmington MPO, and CSX Transportation, NCDOT has completed the Wilmington Traffic Separation Study, focusing on 26 existing at-grade roadway-railroad crossings along a 6-mile span of the CSXT rail line.
3:00 pm in the 6th Floor Conference Room at 320 Chestnut Street in downtown Wilmington.
10:00am in the Lord Spencer Compton Conference Room at Wilmington City Hall.
3:00pm in the 6th Floor Conference Room at 320 Chestnut Street in downtown Wilmington.
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.