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5 <br />3. The NC Board of Transportation is encouraged to use Enhancement <br />funds authorized by the Internodal Surface Transportation <br />Efficiency Act of 1991 to purchase the Durham to Timberlake and <br />Durham to I-40 (including the American Tobacco Lead) corridors <br />for future expansion of the public transportation system. <br />4. State agencies and units of local government are encouraged to <br />participate in the preservation of rail corridors and other such <br />rights-of-way to which may provide current and future pedestrian <br />access and non-motorized vehicular linkages to the multi-modal <br />public transportation system. <br />RESOLUTION ENDORSING EFFORTS TO PRESERVE <br />ALL HIGHWAY RAILROAD GRADE SEPARATIONS <br />WITHIN DURHAM, ORANGE AND WAKE COUNTIES <br />WHEREAS, the Triangle Transit Authority was created to finance, provide, <br />operate and maintain a safe, clean, reliable, convenient, energy efficient, <br />economical and environmentally sound public transportation system for <br />Durham, Orange and Wake Counties; and <br />WHEREAS, with the support and funding of the state and local units of <br />government, the Triangle Transit Authority will be receiving a Federal <br />Transit Administration grant to initiate planning for a future fixed <br />guideway transit system as a component of a multi-modal public <br />transportation system; and <br />WHEREAS, the Triangle Transit Authority Board of Trustees has established a <br />policy encouraging the preservation of all active and inactive rail <br />corridors for use as part of the network of the multi-modal public <br />transportation system; and <br />WHEREAS, the removal of grade separated crossings in corridors and <br />potential rights-of-way diminishes the ability and value of the corridor or <br />right-of-way to function within the network. <br />NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved by the. Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />that: <br />1. The Orange County Board of Commissioners fully endorses efforts <br />to preserve all highway railroad grade separations for all <br />active and inactive rail lines within Durham, Wake and Orange <br />Counties. <br />2. The General Manager is directed to work with the North Carolina <br />Railroad, the CSX Transportation Company, the Norfolk and <br />Southern Railroad Company and the North Carolina Department of <br />Transportation to preserve current grade separations and to <br />discourage new at-grade crossings of rail lines. <br />VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br />