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The North Carolina: Moving Ahead! initiative is a major transportation program that was announced by Governor Easley on February 19, 2003. The goal of the program is to improve safety and mobility of the State's highways. It focuses on smaller projects which can be completed quickly and will require minimal environmental review. Seven hundred million ($700 million) has been made available from the Highway Trust Fund to fund the Moving Ahead! Program.
Projects selected for funding through this program should serve to:
- Enhance safety
- Reduce congestion
- Reduce accidents
- Reduce fatal crashes
- Upgrade pavement widths and shoulders
- Extend pavement life of roads
- Provide smooth pavements
- Rehabilitate or replace deficient bridges
- Improve horizontal and vertical alignments
- Provide Adequate drainage
In April, 2003, NCDOT Secretary Lyndo Tippett requested that Pitt County identify potential projects to be funded by the new program. Pitt County submitted several potential projects based on eligibility requirements which were currently listed in the Pitt County Thoroughfare Plan and/or identified through input by the Board of County Commissioners, local NCDOT officials and the general public.
A listing of Division 2 funded projects, which includes Pitt County, can be found here...
North Carolina: Moving Ahead! Project List
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