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Transportation Improvements <br />Most properties in the study area are accessed from Purefoy Drive off Rogers Road. <br />Rogers Road is a two lane facility currently classified as a collector street by the <br />North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT). The traffic volume in 2007 <br />was approximately 5,000 vehicles per day, a rise from 3,000 vehicles per day in <br />1990. (In general traffic on Rogers Road has increased by 4 to 6 percent per year.) <br />Purefoy Drive as currently constructed is sufficient to accommodate 500 - 1,500 <br />vehicle trips per day. <br />The Task Force recommendations propose that new development in the study area <br />may require expansion or upgrade of existing streets. The Task Force identified the <br />need for additional access to the neighborhood and more internal road connec- <br />tions (See Figure 6) In particular they identified the need to have a north -south <br />roadway connection through the study area to connect to Eubanks Road. <br />Orange County owns approximately 70 percent of the property with frontage on <br />Eubanks Road including the landfill site, the solid waste operations center and the <br />animal shelter. The Task Force considered options to provide an east to west road <br />connection to the neighborhood through the Greene Tract. <br />Transit Service <br />Currently, the Rogers Road area is served by Chapel Hill Transit paratransit and <br />Share -a -Ride services. Chapel Hill Transit has received funding to revise existing <br />transit service in the Rogers Road area. It is anticipated that this expansion of tran- <br />sit service will be implemented by the end of the second quarter of 2009. Figure 5 <br />shows one option for extending transit service along Rogers Road. Until additional <br />operational and funding details are finalized, this route remains conceptual in <br />nature. <br />12 <br />HS Route Proposed Extension <br />EUBANKS RD <br />N <br />WEAVER DAIRY RD <br />PUREFOY DR <br />0 <br />HOMESTEAD RD <br />H SCHOOL R <br />)I <br />C.N.H.S � <br />Z <br />Smirk Middle <br />it <br />S""11 Elam. <br />A <br />Z <br />H <br />� <br />7J <br />r <br />r <br />o <br />= <br />ESTES <br />DR <br />S <br />0 <br />m <br />o <br />I <br />I <br />i[ <br />W <br />�c <br />Legend <br />• Stops�st <br />F <br />- Proposed <br />Extension <br />w� °o <br />- HS Route <br />Streets <br />� <br />mPA <br />Source: Chapel Hill Transit 0 0.25 0.5 1 Miles <br />Date: 5/27/08 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 <br />Figure 5 - HS Route Proposed Extension <br />