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OTHER PROJECTS <br />Orange County has submitted several priority projects for previous updates to the <br />Transportation Improvement Program that the County has omitted from this priority list for the <br />following reasons: <br />1. The projects are bicycle projects with estimated costs greater than $1,000,000, and <br />will be prioritized as new highway modernization projects and Orange County complies <br />with the Metropolitan Planning Organization's request to limit requests to 3 new <br />highway projects; or <br />2. The projects are highway projects that are not included in the 2035 DCHC Long <br />Range Transportation Plan. <br />These projects will be important for future mobility. Orange County requests the following <br />projects be considered for funding in future updates to transportation plans and programs as <br />traffic and congestion conditions warrant: <br />• SR 1114 (Buckhorn Road) Widenina: Widen Buckhorn Road from US 70 to West Ten <br />Road (SR 1144) to a multi-lanes with bicycle and pedestrian facilities. This stretch of <br />roadway borders the western boundary of the I-85/Buckhorn Road Economic <br />Development District EDD). Orange County has extended water and sewer to this <br />area to serve the Gravelly Hill Middle School on West Ten Road and to increase the <br />attractiveness of the Economic Development District. .Improvements to the <br />transportation system to support plans for that district will be necessary to efficiently <br />and safely accommodate anticipated traffic. The Gravelly Hill Middle School and <br />soccer fields on the north side of West Ten Road also increase traffic on this segment <br />of Buckhorn Road. <br />SR 1008 (Mt. Carmel Church Road) bicycle lanes Construct bicycle lanes on Mt. <br />Carmel Church Road from US 15-501 to the Orange/Chatham County line. This <br />project is a segment of the Mountains to Seas Bicycle Route. Mt. Carmel Church <br />Road, from Chapel Hill's extraterritorial planning jurisdiction (ETJ) to the <br />Orange/Chatham County line is priority 8 of the primary priority bicycle routes on the <br />Orange County Bicycle Transportation Plan. Increased traffic on Mt. Carmel Church <br />has worsened travel conditions in this corridor that has many blind curves; making this <br />popular bicycle route unsafe for bicycling. <br />US 70 B ass Widenin :Widen US 70 Bypass, from the Orange/Durham County line <br />to the I-85-US 70 Connector east of Efland, to a four-lane divided section with bike and <br />pedestrian improvements. This project should be phased to address traffic counts and <br />existing congestion. Two segments of this corridor are of particular interest. The first <br />segment is the one through northern Hillsborough because of the economic <br />development potential of this segment (as referenced in the US 70/Cornelious Street <br />Corridor Strategic Plan) and proximity to C.W. Stanford Middle School and Orange <br />High School. The second segment is the segment through the Eno Economic <br />Development District that includes the interchange of Interstate 85 and US 70, and <br />should be contemporaneous with TIP Project I-0305, Interstate 85 widening from I-40 <br />to the Orange/Durham County line. <br />