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13 Attachment 3: Draft Triangle Area Regional Planning Organization (TARPO) Project Priority List Rank/ Map Project Project Description /Need Status Existing Project Score/ Staff Recommendation ID # (New /Existing Project) Rank Description: Up to six (6), 25 -foot, 18- passenger cutaway bus vehicles to accommodate bus service expansion as recommended in the Orange County Bus and Rail Investment Plan (OCBRIP) and the Five -Year Orange County Bus Service Expansion Program currently under development. Need: Given the range of potential services that could be developed as part of Orange Public Transportation's (OPT's) bus service expansion, staff has identified the need for up to an additional six (6), 25 -foot, 18- passenger cutaway bus vehicles to accommodate potential bus Orange Public service expansion to both rural demand response services and intra - Hillsborough, Hillsborough Transportation to Chapel Hill, Cedar Grove to Hillsborough, and Mebane /Efland /Hillsborough fixed -route Expansion Vehicles services. The exact number of expansion vehicles to be submitted to each respective Submit to TARPO for SPOT 3.0 scoring and 1 to Implement the transportation planning organization will depend on the final outcome of bus service expansion New Transit Project (Not N/A consideration of inclusion in the TARPO regional Orange County Bus objectives identified in the draft Five -Year Orange County Bus Service Expansion Program previously submitted) priority list and STIP as project priority #1 as a new and Rail Investment currently under development by Triangle Transit in partnership with Orange County staff that transit project. Plan will be brought before the BOCC in January for consideration and feedback. The estimated cost in 2015 dollars per expansion vehicle is $71,500. If awarded expansion vehicles to be funded by Federal and State match sources, the County /OPT must commit a 10% local match for those vehicles, equating to $7,150 per vehicle in 2015 dollars. If six (6) expansion vehicles are awarded, the total cost to the County would be $42,900 in 2015 dollars, however, revenue from the public transit 1 /2- percent sales tax and the vehicle registration fee can be expended on expansion vehicles. This project submission is meant to be a placeholder for the finer details of specific expansion vehicle needs to be determined when the recommendations for those needs are finalized. Description: Widen NC 54 from Orange Grove Road (SR 1006) to Old Fayetteville Road (SR 1937/1107) from a two (2) -lane, 24 -foot undivided thoroughfare to a four (4) -lane divided boulevard type thoroughfare with a travel - prohibitive median to improve mobility and provide better access control. This project is recommended in the Orange County Comprehensive Transportation Plan (OCCTP). This project is partially located within the DCHC MPO planning area. Need: NCDOT projections reveal that traffic on NC 54 from Orange Grove Road to Fayetteville Submit to TARPO for SPOT 3.0 scoring and 2 NC 54 Widening Road will substantially exceed the existing roadway capacity by 2035, warranting an increase New Highway Project N/A consideration of inclusion in the TARPO regional incapacity through widening. NCDOT traffic figures already indicate that traffic along the priority list and STIP as project priority #2 as a new segment of NC 54 from Butler Road /Dodsons Cross Road to Neville Road is at capacity and highway project. will only continue to substantially exceed capacity in future years. Given these figures, it is also likely that traffic along the segment of NC 54 from Neville Road to Old Fayetteville Road is also at or over capacity. Among all projects recommended in the OCCTP, this project would likely score the highest relative to other projects given the improvements the project would provide for both congestion and benefit -cost factors. This project is also eligible for funding at both the regional and divisional tiers, providing it a greater opportunity to be funded than projects that are only eligible for funding at the division tier. Description: Widen Buckhorn Road from U.S. 70 to West Ten Road (SR 1144) to multi -lanes with bicycle and pedestrian facilities. This segment of roadway is over 95% within the BGMPO Scored in SPOT 2.0 prioritization as planning area and borders the western boundary of the I- 40/1 -85- Buckhorn Road EDD. Existing Highway Mobility a project within the BGMPO Need: This general vicinity of this proposed project is the focus of a growing problem of traffic project submitted for scoring in planning area as a Subregional Submit to TARPO for SPOT 3.0 scoring and 3 Buckhorn Road (SR backing up on the northbound exit ramps onto southbound Buckhorn Road and at a SPOT 2.0. This project was Highway Mobility project. Ranked consideration of inclusion in the TARPO regional 1114) Widening e just south eft turn into a nonconforming business use just south of the interchange. Orange County has submitted by another 272/382 for all Subregional priority list and STIP as project priority #3 as a extended water and sewer to this area to serve public facilities and to increase the jurisdiction to the BGMPO in Highway Mobility projects scored in reprioritized highway project. attractiveness of the EDD for development. The project was previously submitted through the 2011. the state. Project is anticipated to rank lower (313/382) for SPOT 3.0. DCHC MPO as a bike project requesting four (4) -foot paved bike lanes when Buckhorn Road was located within that MPO's planning area.