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ORANGE COUNTY TRANSPORTATION PRIORITY LIST 2011 - 2017 (2012 - 2018) TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM STATUS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ORANGE NCDOT DIVISION DCHC MPO COUNTY PRIORITY PROJECT DESCRIPTION PRIORITIZATION FOR 2012-2018 PRIORITY FoR 2012- Additional information/ (2011-17) nP 2018 MTIP STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS 1 TIP Proiect No. EB-4980, SR 1006 (Orange Grove Road) at Interstate 40: Construct a pedestrian bridge over ISO; construct Feasibility study BIKE/PED sidewalk along the north side of Orange Grove Road from the bridge to Timbers Drive. Interstate 40 separates two in 2009-2015 #13 schools, Grady Brown Elementary and Cedar Ridge High School, from residential areas north of the interstate. The schools are TIP COmpleted. RESUBMIT AS PRIOROITY #1 A NEW within walking and cycling distance from residential areas but bicyclists and pedestrians must share the roadway with motor NCDOT Division PEDESTRIAN PROJECT AND ADD SIDEWALK vehicles crossing the narrow two-lane bridge that carries Orange Grove Road over Interstate 40. The bridge is too narrow to of Bicycle and FROM BRIDGE TO TIMBERS DRIVE accommodate a pedestrian walkway. Lack of an adequate pedestrian crossing presents an unsafe environment for students to Pedestrian walk to the schools. The "Access Management and Awareness Project and Report for Orange Grove Road" recommends this Transportation . project. Orange County's Safe Routes to School Action Plan identifies the pedestrian bridge as the central element in the plan did not for Grady A. Brown Elementary School. The School System has committed to construct a trail from the bridge across Cedar recommend to Ridge High School property to the entrance of Cedar Ridge High School on New Grady Brown School Road. be programmed and funded. 2 Hillsborough Train Station: Construct a train station in Hillsborough and request AMTRAK service to Orange County. The train Rail Project TRANSIT This project is in the NCDOT Rail station can also serve future commuter rail operations and anchor a multimodal transportation hub in Hillsborough. A revenue NCDOT SPOT #1 (WITH Division's plans. The MPO submitted it and ridership study conducted by the North Carolina Department of Transportation Rail Division and AMTRAK has indicated that Rank = 22 OTHER as both a rail proiject and a public there is enough potential ridership to make a stop in Hillsborough financially feasible. TRANStr transportation project. Division 7 PROJECTS) Rank = 1 SUBMIT AS A RAIL PROJECT PRIORITY #3 3 TIP Proiect No.R-2825, SR 1009 (South Churton Street) Imarovements: Develop congestion management, limited access, Subregional HWY This project is scheduled for aesthetic and capacity improvements including bicycle and pedestrian improvements between US 70 Business and Highway #9 reprioritization Interstate 40. The portion between Interstates 40 and 85 will conform to the design criteria of the Econdmic Development District Project Design Manual (4-lane divided section with bike'and pedestrian improvements). The feasibility study completed by NCDOT in (Mobility) SUBMIT AS PRIORITY #2 February 2002 recommends a 4-lane divided curb and gutter cross section, with 16-foot median, for the entire corridor from I-40 NCDOT SPOT to the Eno River. Orange County stresses the need to study improvements within the current right-of-way for the segment north Rank = 87 of Interstate 85. Improved capacity through widening is not the County's first choice because of significant constraints between Interstate 85 and US 70 Business and the proximity of the historic district north of the project limits. Orange County requests Division 7 that, where conditions do not prevent the addition of frontage roads, the feasibility study include the addition of frontage roads Rank = 11 with limited access from the corridor. 4 SR 1009 (Old NC 86) Bicycle Facilities: Construct bicycle facilities on Old NC 86 from Hillsborough Road in Carrboro to I-40 in Bicycle Project BIKE/PED This project did not rank as one of the top Hillsborough. This route along Old NC 86, from Carrboro's Transition Area just north of Eubanks Road (SR 1727) to Rippy Lane NCDOT SPOT #25 5 bicycle projects submitted by the DCHC (SR 1224), is priority 6 of the primary bicycle routes listed in the Orange County Bicycle Transportation Plan. This project would Unranked MPO and was not ranked in the SPOT extend bicycle accommodations requested in TIP Project R-2825 (South Churton Street bicycle lanes from Interstate 40 to the database. The estimated cost is greater Eno River) to Hillsborough Road in Carrboro and provide a connection between proposed bicycle facilities in Carrboro along Old Division 7 than $1,000,000 so this project will be Fayetteville Road, Homestead Road and Eubanks Road. Unranked prioritized as a Highway Modernization project. ' SUBMIT AS A NEW HIGHWAY MODERNIZATION ~' PROJECT AS PRIORITY #5. ~ ~