PennDOT District 8 plans to focus on projects approved in the county’s current Transportation Improvement Project (TIP) rather than taking on any new ones in the immediate future, members of the technical committee of the Municipal Planning Organization (LEBCO MPO) learned Tuesday.

“There is no money to start any new projects or studies in the next two years,” Carey Mullins, District 8 planning transportation manager, told the committee. “We’re cycling through some big projects right now.”

The county has about a dozen improvement projects either in the design and development pipeline or under construction. Funding for those projects comes mostly through the federal transportation bill which expires next September.

What the funding level will be in the next federal transportation bill is

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