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NC 86, Bicycle Facilities: Construct bicycle facilities (4-foot paved shoulders) from <br />Chapel Hill (Whitfield Road, SR 1730, SR 1731) to Hillsborough (US 70 Business). <br />This project will extend bicycle facilities on Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard (NC86) in <br />Chapel Hill to US 70 Business in Hillsborough. NC 86 from Chapel Hill to Hillsborough <br />is experiencing increasing numbers of bicyclists using this route and there are also two <br />schools along this route, A.L. Stanback Middle School and New Hope Elementary <br />School (just off NC 86 on New Hope Church Road, SR 1723). This route is listed as <br />priority I of the primary bicycle routes proposed in the Orange County Bicycle <br />Transportation Plan. <br />