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Updated Conformity Finding for Amendment 12 to the Salem-Plaistow-Windham MPO 2005-2007 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)

• Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on I-93 Widening Project.

 

Below are the three volumes of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for widening of I-93 from Salem to Manchester.  The FEIS calls for widening the existing highway from 2 lanes in each direction to 4 lanes. The FEIS includes three volumes that are available for download on the NHDOT website:

Volume 1 - Main FEIS Document (PDF)

Volume 2 - Maps (ZIP)

Volume 3 - Public Comments & Responses to Draft EIS (ZIP)

Note that these are massive files, with Volumes 1 & 3 each over 600 pages, and Volume 2 containing 100+ color maps in 11x17 format.

SPW MPO Comment to NHDOT on Final EIS

Staff notes on FEIS for Policy Committee Discussion

SPW MPO Comment on Draft EIS  

Overview information on the project is available at NHDOT's I-93 Project Website. (www.state.nh.us/dot/10418c/deis.htm)

• Greater Derry-Salem Regional Transit Initiative

For the past five years the RPC has worked with the Greater Derry-Salem Regional Transportation Council (RTC), the Southern NH Planning Commission, the Nashua Regional Planning Commission, and more than 30 health and human service agencies and municipal representatives to develop and implement a plan to coordinate and expand access to public transportation in the 11-town Greater Derry-Salem region. 

This remains the only urbanized area in the state that lacks regular bus service. While the region has approximately 20 health and human service agencies that provide rides to clients, these services are not coordinated, and meet only a fraction of the need in the region for seniors and other transit dependent residents. This creates a substantial barrier to accessing proper health care and basic life needs for many elderly, disabled, and low-income residents who are unable to drive or lack access to a private automobile.

The Regional Transit Plan, completed in 2003, proposes establishment of a regional transit brokerage, as well as eventual fixed route bus service between Derry and Salem.

Three Page Project Summary (PDF)

Greater Derry-Salem Regional Transit Plan

• Salem-Plaistow-Windham Transit Guide

Live in Plaistow and need to get to Boston but don't want to fight traffic? How about taking the bus? Or the commuter rail? Or joining a vanpool? You have more choices than you might think! Find out more here!