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Y230 Block Grant call for Projects

The Columbus-Phenix City Transportation Study – Metropolitan Planning Organization (C-PCTS-MPO) is conducting a competitive project selection process to award expected FY 2023-2024 Surface Transportation Block Grant (STBG) Program Urban Attributable (Y230) funds, provided through the act entitled Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).

Please refer to the Application's Call For Projects page for more information.



2038 Comprehensive Plan Update | Planning Advisory Commission Public Meeting

The process of updating the 5-year community work program of the Comprehensive Plan for the City of Columbus has begun, and this is your invitation to have input! The City has held three public meetings in three various areas of Columbus. The fourth meeting will be held at the Planning Advisory Commission on September 20, 2023, at 9 AM in the Council Chamber of the Citizen Service Center. This will be the first meeting presenting the new Community Work Program.



2023-2026 Public Participation Plan Comment Period Open

The CPC-MPO 2023-2026 Public Participation Plan is now available for review and comment. Please submit any comments to mixen.michael@columbusga.org within the next 30 days.



Draft 2024-2027 Transportation Improvment Program - 30 Day Public Comment Period

The Draft 2024-2027 Transportation Improvment Program is now available for review and comment. Please submit any comments to Ltemples@columbusga.org within the next 30 days.



Revised Annual Listing of Obligated Projects

The Columbus-Phenix City Metropolitan Planning Organization has published a revised annual listing of obligated projects. The purpose of this report is to provide a list of federal highway and transit funded projects obligated in the previous fiscal year. A project is considered obligated when a funding contract has been completed, or a grant has been awarded. The report includes all projects in Alabama within the City of Phenix City, the City of Smiths Station, and parts of Lee and Russell Counties obligated in fiscal year 2022, which ran from October 1, 2021, through September 30, 2022.

CPC-MPO Annual Listing of Obligated Projects | FY 2022

2024 Draft Unified Planning Work Program

The 2024 Draft Unified Planning Work Program is now available for review and comment. Please submit any questions or comments to CPCMPO@Columbusga.org


Alabama Authorized Projects FY2022 - Alabama

The Columbus-Phenix City Metropolitan Planning Organization has announced a number of TIP (Transportation Improvement Plan) projects for Fiscal Year 2022 for the Alabama portion of the metropolitan area. You may view a list of the projects with additional information here


Federally Funded Projects authorized by GDOT for Fiscal Year 2022

The Georgia Department of Transportation has authorized a number of federally funded transportation projects for Fiscal Year 2022. For more information and a list of these projects, please click here.


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