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Comments Welcome on State Road Planning

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If your business maintains a fleet of commercial vehicles impacted by road conditions in Michigan you might be interested in today’s release of the 2017-2020 State Transportation Improvement Program, or STIP for short, by the Michigan Department of Transportation. The 76-page document lists the transportation projects that MDOT intends to fund with federal aid provided under the federal transportation program during that four-year period. The planning document is required under the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAS) Act, as is the required comment period that is now open for your input.

MDOT is seeking public comment, not just from fleet operators, but anybody interested in the projected planning contained in the draft document which can be viewed by clicking the link at the end of this story.

The planning document was prepared by MDOT in partnership with local transportation agencies including our own Southwestern Michigan Planning Commission in Benton Harbor. The STIP is a compilation of trunkline and local projects that meet the transportation goals and strategies for the four-year period running from 2017 through 2020. The transportation improvement projects reported in the STIP were developed in coordination with metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), like the SWM Planning Commission, which represent the state’s urbanized areas, and with rural task forces and small urban areas. The planning process relies on the participation of state and local government officials, public and private transit providers, organizations representing the customers and providers of transportation in Michigan, and the general public.

Reality is that the STIP is not a single report; it is comprised of 14 separate documents: 13 individual MPO Transportation Improvement Programs (TIPs) and one statewide non-MPO STIP document.

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If you or your business would like to issue comments on the planning documents, MDOT will be accepting such public comment on the STIP through Aug. 15, 2016. The document is posted on the MDOT website and can be accessed right now by clicking the link below:

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