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11 October 15, 1997 Dr. Alice Gordon, Chair Transportation Advisory Committee Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro MPO Durham DOT 101 City Hall Plaza Durham, NC 27701 Dear Dr. Gordon: Enclosed with this letter you will find this year's "Orange County Transportation Priority List for- Consideration. of Funding in The Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Transportation Improvement Program." Our number one priority project continues to be improvements to Homestead Road (U-2805) to address school safety issues. Our number one priority policy issue is the process used to initiate a feasibility study to consider a possible widening of Mt Carmel Church Road (R-3829) to a multi- lane facility. Further advancement of Homestead Road is requested for the following reasons: a) in the year 2000, the completed widening of Airport Road will approximately double its capacity and provide increased access to the land served by Homestead Road; and b) as currently programmed there will be a period of approximately two years during which accident exposure will be increased because Homestead Road will not have been improved at the same time as Airport Road. The programming of a feasibility study for a possible widening of Mt Carmel Church Road (R-3829) to a multi-lane facility, without the participation of the local governments in Divisions 5, 7, and 8 that may be affected, is a serious concern to Orange County. We understand that this project was requested by the Division 8 BOT Member, Mr. G.R. Kindley. In the future we request that Orange County be consulted about feasibility studies in its jurisdiction before such studies are added to the TIP. We believe that before feasibility studies are included in the TIP, they should be requested and programmed in the same manner as all other transportation plans and projects through the normal Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro (DCHC) Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) process.