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Residents urge formal MPO review, question county role in Regional Mobility Authority projects
Summary
Residents asked the Brazos County Commissioner's Court to seek a formal MPO review to remove the proposed Inner East Loop and pressed the court to clarify whether it would support or fund RMA projects.
BRYAN, Texas — Residents told the Brazos County Commissioner's Court on Aug. 5 that the county should seek a formal review of the thoroughfare plan to remove the proposed Inner East Loop and that the court should clarify whether it will support the Brazos County Regional Mobility Authority (RMA) financially or administratively.
Precinct 2 resident Christine Schimek summarized the local planning history and said the MPO — the Metropolitan Planning Organization that covers Bryan–College Station — “develops plans, coordinates a transportation planning process,” and that an RMA was created after a 2019 minute order from the Texas Transportation Commission. Schimek asked whether the county intends to provide “creative financing”…
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