Is the Strategic Highway Corridors concept simply an idea under review? What power(s) does it have to be applied statewide and for how long into the future?
The Department has already begun to consider how planning and design decisions would be affected in the future as a result of the Strategic Highway Corridors concept. With the adoption of the concept under the auspices of the Statewide Transportation Plan in September 2004, the Board of Transportation endorsed this concept as a new direction for statewide highway planning. The Board acts as the policy-making body for NCDOT and therefore the Strategic Highway Corridors concept will remain as a guide for future decision-making. However the work to educate stakeholders and citizens about the concept must continue and will take time and the real impact will be seen in the coming years.
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- How (or will) the Strategic Highway Corridors concept affect projects already in the "pipeline"? Will the concept affect projects that are on the verge of being constructed?
- Is the Strategic Highway Corridors concept simply an idea under review? What power(s) does it have to be applied statewide and for how long into the future?
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