{"id":181816,"date":"2026-05-02T02:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181816\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T02:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:11:11","slug":"public-comment-period-open-for-transportation-planning-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/181816\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Comment Period Open for Transportation Planning | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Erie<\/p>\n

The Erie County Metropolitan Planning Organization (Erie MPO) has opened the public comment period for the Draft Public Participation Plan for transportation planning. This plan provides the methods and strategies for public outreach. This includes State and Federal regulations on the public\u2019s participation.<\/p>\n

The public commenting period will begin on May 1 and will remain open until 4 p.m. on June 15. The draft can be found on the Erie MPO website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hard copies will be available to read at the Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority\u2019s Office and the County\u2019s Blasco Memorial Public Library.<\/p>\n

Written comments can be sent through mail to the Erie County Department of Planning and Community Development or through email to pcdinfo@eriecountypa.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mail should be addressed to:<\/p>\n

Erie County Department of Planning and Community Development<\/p>\n

150 East Front Street, Suite 300<\/p>\n

Erie, PA 16507<\/p>\n

The public is welcome to attend two public meetings on June 1.<\/p>\n

Meeting One:<\/p>\n

When: 1 p.m. until 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

Where: Blasco Library in the Admiral Room<\/p>\n

On Microsoft Teams: Meeting ID: 278 226 086 477 828, Passcode: LK9Sk3QS.<\/p>\n

Meeting Two:<\/p>\n

When: 6 p.m. until 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

Where: Blasco Library in the Admiral Room<\/p>\n

On Microsoft Teams: Meeting ID: 220 006 647 696 535, Passcode: 68wu6Pb7<\/p>\n

On June 17 the Erie MPO will be voting on adoption of the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) at the MPO Coordinating Committee meeting which will be held at the Summit Township Municipal Building at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Erie County Metropolitan Planning Organization (Erie MPO) has opened the public comment period for the Draft Public…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,81181,138,137,81180,4900,81182,53515],"class_list":["post-181816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-county-metropolitan-planning-organization","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-public-comment-period","tag-public-meeting","tag-public-participation-plan","tag-transportation-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}