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2 <br />B. U-2805: Homestead Road fSR 1777) Improvements: Improve Homestead Road <br />from SR 1834, High School Road, to NC 86. This project should include bicycle <br />and pedestrian facilities. This is an unfunded project in the Draft 2006-2012 <br />STIP. Orange County appreciates NCDOT's cooperation and participation in the <br />Homestead and High School Roads Safety Task Force efforts to obtain <br />sidewalks on the north side of Homestead Road from Camden Lane to Rogers <br />Rd. through the NC Moving Ahead! program. Orange County is also aware that <br />projects funded in the TIP are not eligible for Moving Ahead funds. Although <br />NCDOT has agreed to include the Homestead Road sidewalk in the Moving <br />Ahead program for FY 06, NCDOT has not identified funding for this project. In <br />the case that this project is not funded in the NC Moving Ahead! program for FY <br />06, TIP project U-2805 should be funded and phased so that sidewalks on the <br />north side Homestead Road from Camden Lane to Rogers Road can be <br />constructed as soon as possible. . <br />There are three schools in the vicinity of Homestead Road: Chapel Hill High <br />School, Smith Middle School and Seawell Elementary School: Many students <br />live within walking distance and cycling distance to Chapel Hill High School and <br />must walk or cycle along Homestead Road, and cross the road daily. Provision <br />of sidewalks is of utmost importance for the safety of students and other <br />pedestrians who use this corridor. Provision of bicycle facilities is, likewise, <br />necessary for the safety of students and others. <br />C. NC 86, Bicvcle Lanes: Construct bicycle lanes (4-foot paved shoulders) from <br />Chapel Hill (Whitfield Road) to Hillsborough (US 70 Business). The Draft 2006- <br />2012 STIP does not include this project. This project will extend bicycle lanes on <br />Airport Road (NC86) in Chapel Hill to US 70 Business in Hillsborough. Bicycle <br />lanes have been completed along NC 86 from UNC to Whitfield Road (SR 1731) <br />in Orange County. NC 86 from Chapel Hill to Hillsborough is experiencing <br />increasing numbers of bicyclists using this route. Also, there are two schools <br />along this route (A.L. Stanback Middle School and New Hope Elementary <br />School). This route is listed as priority I of the primary bicycle routes proposed in <br />the Orange County Bicycle Transportation Plan adopted April 6, 1999. This <br />project is listed in the 2002-2008 TIP, as an incidental bicycle need. Orange <br />County requests that bicycle lanes be constructed as an independent project, <br />and, if necessary, programmed in phases. <br />D. Old NC 86 (SR 1009 Bicvcle Lanes: Construct bicycle lanes (4-foot paved <br />shoulders) from Carrboro (Eubanks Road) to Hillsborough (I-40). The Draft <br />2006-2012 STIP does not include this project. This route, from the Carrboro <br />Transition area- (Hickory Forest Road) to Lafayette Drive, is identified in the <br />Orange County Bicycle Transportation Plan, and would extend bicycle <br />accommodations requested in TIP Project R-2825 to Carrboro. The Town of <br />Carrboro Transportation Advisory Committee has also established bicycle routes <br />on Old NC 86 as a transportation priority connection between proposed bicycle <br />facilities along Old Fayetteville Road, Homestead Road and Eubanks Road. <br />