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Tommy Holmes <br />6800 Orange Grove Road <br />Orange Grove <br />Volunteer Fire Company <br />September 22,1998 <br />Mr: Norris Tolson: Secretary <br />NC Department of Transportation <br />a <br />s <br />Dear Secretary Tolson, <br />3 <br />Chief <br />Hillsborough, NC 27278 <br />919- 967 -5858 <br />I write on behalf of the Orange Grove Volunteer Fire Department, located in rural <br />Orange County. Currently DOT is preparing to pave Rural Road 1114 (Buckhorn <br />Road). This road crosses Cane Creek in a blind dangerous curve on a steep hill. I <br />write to bring to your attention the lack of plans to replace the bridge and fix the hill <br />and curve. We hope you will intervene and add the bridge upgrade to the project. <br />Currently we can not use Rural Road 1114 to respond to fire calls in-our community <br />if they involve crossing this bridge. The hill is too dangerous to risk .a fire truck by <br />driving on it in its current configuration. By not being able to use Rural Road 1114, it <br />adds nearly one mile to our response distance to the western part of our district. If the <br />bridge was upgraded and the rest of the road paved, it would measurably improve our <br />response time and increase the level of safety to our community. <br />To pave the road and not improve the bridge and its approaches would be very <br />wasteful. You will create is a crash zone when motorist driving at paved road speed <br />comes upon this hill and narrow bridge. I would think that DOT would not want to <br />create a such a safety hazard when the goal is to improve rural roads. <br />Please review the plans for Rural Road 1114 and add the bridge upgrade to the <br />project. <br />S,4ely, <br />Linwood Futrel e <br />President, Board of Directors <br />Orange Grove Volunteer Fire Company <br />Linwood @.unc.edu or 919- 929 -5811 (h) <br />