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Evansville MPO approves fast‑track TIP amendment to repair electric vehicle chargers, adopts regional safety action plan
Summary
The Evansville Metropolitan Planning Organization approved two TIP amendments including an NDOT emergency amendment to fund repair or replacement of nonoperational Level 2 electric vehicle chargers and the addition of a regional safety action plan. NDOT has 12 months to complete the EV work; public comment will occur through the NDOT STIP amendment process.
The Evansville Metropolitan Planning Organization policy committee voted to approve two amendments to the Transportation Improvement Program on a voice vote, including a fast‑tracked emergency amendment submitted by the Indiana Department of Transportation to add electric vehicle charging infrastructure work and the addition of a previously publicized regional safety action plan project.
Pam, an MPO staff member presenting the amendments, said the NDOT amendment stems from a grant and is intended to “repair or replace existing nonoperational Level 2” chargers. She told the committee the work carries a compressed timeline—DOTs have 12 months to complete the project—and that the EV amendment is exempt from conformity findings, meaning staff does not expect the project to generate new air‑quality impacts.
The regional safety action plan item was described as a previously submitted project that completed a public review and comment period from June 26 through July 10. Pam said that project will be added to the TIP as presented to the committee.
Committee members asked where the EV chargers funded under the NDOT grant will be located. Pam said she did not have site‑level details at the meeting but believed there are 52 locations across the state and that “maybe one or two” are in the MPO area; she said she would follow up with specific locations. She also reiterated that the NDOT request arrived after the MPO public‑notice period and that the public will have opportunity to comment through the NDOT Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) amendment process.
The committee approved the amendments by voice vote with ayes recorded and no opposition noted in the transcript. The MPO will forward signed documents to NDOT and, for the EV amendment, NDOT will proceed with site selection and the STIP amendment public‑comment step.
Next steps: NDOT is expected to provide specific site locations to MPO staff and to complete the repair or replacement work within the 12‑month grant timeline; the public may comment on the EV amendment as part of NDOT’s STIP amendment process.
