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ORANGE COUNTY TRANSPORTATION PRIORITY LIST WITHIN <br />THE DURHAM-CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO <br />METROPOLITAN AREA BOUNDARY <br />FOR CONSIDERATION OF FUNDING IN <br />THE 2007 - 2013 TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM <br />4. Old NC 86 (SR 1009) Bicycle Lanes: Construct bicycle lanes (4-foot paved <br />shoulders) from Carrboro (Eubanks ..Road) to Hillsborough (I-40). This <br />project, from the Carrboro Transition area (Hickory Forest Road) to Lafayette <br />Drive, is priority 6 of the primary bicycle routes listed in the Orange County <br />Bicycle Transportation Plan, and would extend bicycle accommodations <br />requested in TIP .Project R-2825 to Carrboro, where its Transportation <br />Advisory Committee has also established bicycle routes on Old NC 86 as a <br />transportation priority connection between proposed bicycle facilities along <br />Old Fayetteville Road, Homestead Road and Eubanks Road. <br />The feasibility study for TIP Project R-2825, improvements to South Churton <br />Street, recommends afour-lane divided section for Old NC 86 (S. Churton <br />St.) from I-40 to Lafayette Drive. That study also anticipates accommodations <br />for bicycles (wide outside lanes) from I-40 to I-85. This project would connect <br />bicycle facilities proposed in the South Churton Street project to Carrboro. <br />Carrboro's Priority List for the 2006-2012 TIP included two bicycle projects on <br />Old NC 86 that, along with this request and TIP project R-2825, would <br />complete aHillsborough-Carrboro bicycle route: <br />from Old Fayetteville Road to Homestead Road; and <br />from Homestead Road to Eubanks Road. <br />5. NC 86, Bicycle Lanes: Construct bicycle lanes (4-foot paved shoulders) from <br />Chapel Hill (Whitfield Road) to Hillsborough (US 70 Business). This project <br />will extend bicycle lanes on Airport Road (NC86) in Chapel Hill to US 70 <br />Business in Hillsborough. Bicycle lanes have recently been completed along <br />NC 86 from UNC to Whitfield Road (SR 1731) in Orange County. NC 86 from <br />Chapel Hill to Hillsborough is experiencing increasing numbers of bicyclists <br />using this route and there are. also two schools along this route. This route is <br />listed as priority I of the primary bicycle routes proposed in the Orange <br />County Bicycle Transportation Plan adopted April 6, 1999. This project is <br />included in the Bicycle Program as an incidental need. Orange County <br />requests that bicycle lanes be constructed as an independent project, and, if <br />necessary, programmed in phases. <br />