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ORANGE COUNTY TRANSPORTATION PRIORITY LIST 2011 - 2017 (2012 - 2018) TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM STATUS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ORANGE NCDOT DMSION DCHC MPO COUNTY PRIORITIZATION PRIORITY PRIORITY PROJECT DESCRIPTION FOR 2012-2018 FOR 2012- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/ (2011-17) TIP 2018 MTIP STAFF RECOMMENDATION 9 SR 1008 (Mt. Carmel Church Road) bicvcle lanes: Construct bicycle lanes on Mt. Carmel Church Road from US 15-501 to the Bicycle Project BIKE/PED NCDOT scores projects by segment. Orange/Chatham County line. This project is a segment of NCDOT Mountains to Seas Bicycle Route (Route 2). Mt. Carmel NCDOT SPOT #15 AND DCHC MPO submitted this project as #15 Church Road, from Chapel Hill's extraterritorial planning jurisdiction (ETJ) to the Orange/Chatham County line is priority 8 of the Unranked #24 (segment from US 15-501 to Bennett primary priority bicycle routes on the Orange County Bicycle Transportation Plan. Increased traffic on Mt. Carmel Church has Road) and #24(segment from Bennett worsened travel conditions in this corridor that has many blind curves, making this popular bicycle route unsafe for bicycling. Division 7 Road to the Orange/Chatham County Unranked line) bicycle priorities. DCHC MPO HAS ASKED THAT LOCAL JURISDICTIONS SUBMIT ONLY 3 NEW HIGHWAY PROJECTS. ORANGE COUNTY This project is a statewide bicycle route. HAS 6 PROJECTS CONSIDERED NEW HIGHWAY PROJECTS. The project cost will be greater than $1,000,000 and this project would be submitted as a new Highway Modemization project. REMOVE FROM THE PRIORITY LIST. 10 US 70 Byoass Widening: Widen US 70 Bypass, from the Orange/Durham County line to the I-85-US 70 Connector east of Not in SPOT DID NOT This project was not submitted in DCHC Efland, to a four-lane divided section with bike and pedestrian improvements. This project should be phased to address traffic database MAKE TOP MPO's top 25-27 highway projects and is counts and existing congestion. Orange County requests that this project be identified as a need and included in the 2011- 27 HwY not listed in the NCDOT database for 20172 STIP. Two segments of this corridor are of particular interest. The first segment is the one through northern Hillsborough PROJECTS reprioritization. because of the economic development potential of this segment (as referenced in the US 70/Comelius Street Corridor Strategic SUBMITTED Plan) and proximity to C.W. Stanford Middle School and Orange High School. The second segment is the segment through the ro NcooT This project is in the regional tier and Eno Economic Development District that includes the interchange of Interstate 85 and US 70, and should be contemporaneous would be a mobility project. NCDOT may with TIP Project I-0305, Interstate 85 widening from I~0 to the Orange/Durham County line consider the mulituse bicycle/ped facility as a separate modernization project . THIS PROJECT IS NOT IN THE FINANCIALLY CONSTRAINED 2035 DCHC LONG RANGE TRANSPORTAION PLAN (LRTP) WILL NOT BE RANKED IN THIS UPDATE TO THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AND THEREFORE REMOVE FROM PRIORITY LIST AND RESUBMIT , IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM. STAFF WILL WORK WITH THE MPO TO INCLUDE APPROPRIATE DESIGNATION FOR THE WHEN CONDITIONS WARRRENT INCLUSION IN US 70 CORRIDOR IN THE MPO COMPREHENSIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN AND INCLUDE IN THE LONG RANGE THE DCHC LRTP TRANSPORTATION PLAN WHEN TRAFFIC/CONGESTION PROJECTIONS INDICATE WIDENING IS NEEDED. 11 NC 86 (North of Hillsborough) Improvements: Widen NC 86, from US 70 Bypass north of Hillsborough to Coleman Loop, SR Not in NCDOT DID NOT This project was not submitted in DCHC 1332, (Coleman Loop also being the intersection area of the planned connector between NC 86 and NC 57), to four lanes with SPOT database MAKE TOP MPO's top 25-27 highway projects and is intersection improvements at US 70 Bypass to include extending the queuing lane for traffic turning east onto US 70 Bypass 27 HvvY not listed in the NCDOT database for 2 from northbound Churton Street/NC 86. NC 86 is the major north-south route through Orange County and is designated in PROJECrs reprioritization. ~ North Carolina's Long-Range Statewide Multimodal Transportation Plan as a Strategic Highway Corridor. NC 57 converges into SUBMITTED ~ US 86 just north of US 70 Bypass. The segment of NC 86 between NC 57 and US 70 is congested, rendering a high accident TO NCDOT This project is in the statewide tier and ~ t location at the intersection of US 70 Bypass at NC 86. . would be a mobility projec