Mercer County's Long Range Transportation Plan
April 2006 & Updates

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MERCER COUNTY LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN

In January 2000, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PENNDOT) unveiled PennPlan, its current long-range transportation plan for 2000 - 2025.  The new plan represented a significant break from previous Department efforts in that it took a corridors-based approach to transportation planning.  As part of the planning effort, PENNDOT identified 28 corridors of statewide significance (including two in Mercer County ) in order to analyze significant trends, issues and opportunities for future consideration in regional and statewide transportation planning and programming.  

Through the development of Corridor Profiles, which examined issues across several planning areas, including transportation, socio-economic and environmental, the plan combined the hard data available at the federal and state level with important issues and perspectives from local transportation users and providers. The PennPlan profiles were developed to be dynamic, allowing for updates of data and new analysis as conditions change.

In 2003, the Mercer County Regional Planning Commission (MCRPC) followed PennDOT’s lead and began an update of its existing long-range plan using the PennPlan model.  This direction was also consistent with federal policy which strongly promotes the need for and value of long range transportation planning. MCRPC, as the staff agency for the Shenango Valley MPO, identified 11 corridors of regional significance as shown in Table 1 .

1. Pittsburgh to Erie Regional Thruway: I-79     

2. New York to Chicago Regional Thruway: I-80     

3. Shenango Valley to Pittsburgh Regional Thruway: PA 60 

4. Shenango Valley N-S Commercial Core: PA 18     

5. Shenango Valley E-W Commercial Core: US 62     

6. Broadway Avenue : PA 60             

7. Shenango Valley to Mercer: US 62             

8. Shenango Valley to Greenville/Reynolds: PA 18     

9. Grove City - Southern Mercer County Tourism Pathway: PA 208           

10. Greenville to Mercer: PA 58             

11. Greenville to I-79: PA 358

The municipalities directly served by the primary corridor roadway defined the corridors. Thus, the I-79 Corridor would include not only the interstate, but other transportation facilities such as US 19 and BicyclePA Route A. Two of the corridors - I-79 and I-80 - are covered at a more strategic level as part of PennDOT's previous LRTP - PennPlan.

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• Volume 3 - Cover Page

• Regional Overview

• Long Range Transportation Projects - Matrix

Corridor Profiles

• Corridor 1 - Interstate 79

• Corridor 2 - Interstate 80

• Corridor 3 - State Route 60 / 18 (Shenango Twp., Hermitage)

• Corridor 4 - State Route 18 (Hermitage)

• Corridor 5 - US 62 (Shenango Valley)

• Corridor 6 - State Route 60

• Corridor 7 - US 62 (Hermitage - Mercer)

• Corridor 8 - State Route 18 (Hermitage - Greenville)

• Corridor 9 - State Route 208

• Corridor 10 - State Route 58 (Mercer - Greenville

• Corridor 11 - State Route 358 (Greenville - I-79)

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2011 Transportation Plan Update - Current Plan 5/2015

Mercer County Regional Planning Commission
2491 Highland Road, Hermitage, PA 16148
mail@mcrpc.com    www.mcrpc.com

 

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