What's New
The next BCATS Technical Committee meeting is scheduled for January 8, 2025.
Updated Air Quality Conformity Report available for comment
A new air quality conformity report for the Kalamazoo-Battle Creek Limited Orphan Maintenance Area (covering Kalamazoo, Calhoun, and Van Buren counties) has been created to include the Marshall Modernization projects (various highway projects affecting I-94, I-69, M-96, and M-311 within the Maintenance Area). BCATS, along with MDOT, welcome public comment on this report, available here. BCATS will be asked to support this conformity report at its regularly scheduled January 2025 meetings.
FY 2023-2026
AMENDMENT #13
December 2024
The thirteenth amendment to the current FY 2023-2026 TIP is to be presented to the BCATS Committees in December for potential approval by BCATS Policy Committee on December 18th. Public comment on these proposed actions is requested - please contact the BCATS' office with any questions or comments. Amendment #13 consists of actions identified in the BCATS proposed amendment list, available here.
Links to details of previous amendments to
FY 2023-2026
TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (TIP)
Complete TIP Document Available HERE
FY23-26 TIP Project List from document with Maps
The FY 2023-2026 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) for the BCATS area was unanimously approved by both BCATS' Technical and Policy Committees on May 11th and May 25th respectively. The full document was transmitted July 1st to MDOT for State review and was forwarded to Federal officials for final review and approval, granted 9/19/22. The new TIP will go into effect on October 1, 2022, the first day of FY23. The list of projects selected for the FY23-26 TIP was also transmitted July 1st to MDOT through JobNet, the State's online database program for managing transportation improvement projects, and is also now Fed-approved for the selected projects, particularly those planned for FY23 implementation, to proceed after October 1st. The establishment of the new TIP for FY23-26 with FY24-26 projects added to FY23 projects carried over from the previous TIP is considered Amendment #1 to the FY23-26 TIP.
The TRANSPORTATION CONFORMITY DETERMINATION REPORT associated with the BCATS FY 2023-2026 TIP is available to view below:
Questions about the Report can be directed to BCATS at bcats@bcatsmpo.org.
BCATS 2045 Metropolitan Transportation Plan