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TPO approves CMAQ funding increase for Knoxville traffic-signal improvements near UT
Summary
The Knoxville Regional TPO approved an amendment to the FY 2023 Transportation Improvement Program adding roughly $2.6 million in CMAQ PM2.5 funds to a traffic-signal project in the University of Tennessee area and updated the project schedule.
The Knoxville Regional Transportation Planning Organization on March 26 approved an amendment to the FY 2023 Transportation Improvement Program to add about $2.6 million in CMAQ PM2.5 funding to a traffic-signal improvement project in the University of Tennessee area.
Craig Lipke, TPO staff, described the change as a schedule and cost update for a project preparing to let. “This one's still moving through, we've got some right away costs and construction and updating those costs for a CMAQ project for the city of Knoxville … total funding that we're adding is about $2,600,000 that is all CMAQ PM 2.5 funding that's being added to the original CMAQ award for this project which project is the traffic signal improvements in the UT area,” Lipke said.
Lipke said the amendment adds $425,000 for right-of-way in fiscal 2025 and about $2.2 million for construction in fiscal 2026, increasing the project’s total to about $5.6 million. He told the board the Technical Committee had approved the funding increase earlier in the month.
Board members moved and seconded the amendment, and the board approved it by voice vote. No roll-call tally was recorded in the meeting transcript; the motion passed by voice vote.
The amendment also included a reaffirmation of the Metropolitan Transportation Planning Process; Lipke noted that reaffirming the process aligns the TPO with federal planning regulations. No speaker at the meeting proposed any changes to the scope of the traffic-signal work described in the amendment.
The TPO staff packet holds the detailed TIP tables and project schedule changes referenced during the meeting. The board did not specify any additional local match or implementation dates beyond the fiscal-year lines shown in the amendment.
Looking ahead, the project will proceed through right-of-way and construction phases as budgeted in the amended TIP; TPO staff indicated they would track letting and obligations and report back to the Technical Committee as the project progresses.
