Old Monroe Rd.
Short Term Improvements Study

Old Monroe Road is a heavily congested major thoroughfare in Mecklenburg and Union counties.  It is ranked #11 on MUMPO’s Candidate Projects List and is ranked in the top 30 out of almost 300 projects listed in the 2030 Long-Range Transportation Plan.  The 2007-2013 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) includes funding in 2013 for planning and design work to start on a future widening however, no funding has been allocated for construction.  This project is identified as U-4713 and its project limits are from Trade Street in Matthews to Wesley Chapel-Stouts Road in Indian Trail.

Because of the severe congestion problem and the likelihood that a widening may be many years in the future, MUMPO has begun a study of the Old Monroe Road corridor as it is defined in the 2007-2013 TIP as project U-4713.  The study’s purpose is to determine what, if any, short-term low-cost improvements can be implemented in advance of the currently unfunded widening of the roadway that can provide some relief to the existing congestion problems. 

Click on the link below to view a presentation given to MUMPO’s Technical Coordinating Committee (TCC) on September 6, 2007.  This presentation provided the TCC with its first look at what is being considered for the Old Monroe Road corridor.

• PowerPoint Presentation