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■ <br />Recommendation : Promote consideration and creation of auto - limited <br />zones in higher density areas, so as to make these <br />areas more pedestrian - friendly and reduce use of <br />private autos. <br />Action Strategies: <br />A. Work with UNC to make the main UNC campus an auto - limited zone. Students, <br />faculty and staff would park out in park and ride lots and take frequently run shuttle service to <br />campus. Parking would still be provided for handicapped drivers, visitors, and Carolina Inn <br />guests. <br />B. Conduct an analysis of potential areas and a way to transition to auto - limited zones <br />in downtown Chapel Hill and Carrboro. <br />C. Encourage Hillsborough to explore the possibility of creating an auto - limited zone in a <br />portion of the downtown area. <br />D. Provide shuttle service from park and ride lots to the University and downtowns. The shuttles <br />must be spaced at frequent intervals during peak times. <br />E. Provide dedicated bus -only lanes to shuttle people from park and ride lots to UNC campus, <br />downtown discharge nodes, and other frequently visited destinations. <br />F. Encourage phasing out use of private auto lots at high schools in order to reduce overall <br />private vehicle use and encourage bus ridership (both school buses and public transit where <br />applicable). <br />Recommendation 4: Make bikeways and sidewalks defining elements of <br />both new and re- development and incorporate into <br />existing development. <br />Action Strategies: <br />A. Build bicycle lanes on all major thoroughfares within urban areas of the county. <br />B. Subject to designs that reduce the impact on landowners, include paved shoulders (4' wide) for <br />all upgrades to major and minor thoroughfares (re- paving or widening) <br />C. Require all urban thoroughfares to have sidewalks and all rural thoroughfares to have shoulders <br />for bicyclists and pedestrians. <br />D. Build sidewalks between schools and residential areas. <br />E. Create safe pedestrian crossings to transverse major highways where needed. <br />52 <br />