This comes to us from Keila over at Missoula Red Tape.
It seems as though the fight to use federal funding for an alternative like ’3-Plus’ just gained a litle more traction! An FHWA spokesperson indicated that roads don’t have to get bigger to be eligible for federal funding.
To back this up, I asked local transportation professional Alex Taft. Alex is a retired transportation planner who has many feathers in his cap, including having been the Executive Director of the Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations. Alex worked on a project that used federal dollars specifically to turn a highway into a neighborhood arterial. Follow the link, and scroll down to page 33 for details.