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16 Attachment 3: Draft Triangle Area Regional Planning Organization (TARPO) Project Priority List Rank/ Map ID # Project Project Description /Need Status (New /Existing Project) Existing Project Score/ Rank Staff Recommendation Submit to TARPO for SPOT 3.0 scoring and Description: Widen Orange Grove Road (SR 1006) from 1 -40 to Dodsons Crossroads (SR consideration for inclusion in the TARPO regional 1102) and Dodsons Crossroads (SR 1102) from Orange Grove Road (SR 1006) to Dairyland priority list and STIP as project priority #10 as a new Road (SR 1177) to include four (4) -foot paved shoulders. This project is recommended as a set Existing Highway Scored in SPOT 2.0 prioritization as bike project if the County can commit to provide the of bikeway improvements in the OCCTP . Modernization Project a Subregional Highway required 20% local match, acquire any necessary Orange Grove submitted for scoring in SPOT Modernization project. Ranked right -of -way, and locally administer /manage the 10 Road / Dodsons Need: This project would provide bicycle facilities to the Grady Brown Elementary School and 2.0. This project was 27/149 for all Subregional project. The estimated construction cost of the project Crossroads Paved Cedar Ridge High School from the area south of the schools and connect to a proposed submitted Orange County Modernization projects scored in according to the NCDOT SPOT office is $25,300,000, Shoulders" bikeway facility on Orange Grove Road northward into Hillsborough. The project would also as project priorities #3 and #4 the state. In general, project is and the estimated right -of -way and utilities cost is improve safety for motorized vehicular travel on this segment Orange Grove Road. The in 2011. anticipated to rank low for SPOT $2,783,000, which would require a local match of project is not likely to score very high using the State's bike /pedd estrian scoring factors because . . 30 because of its rural context roughly $7,843,000. Right -of -way and utility costs of its rural context and is only eligible for funding in the division tier. would not be covered by the State's share of funding. The submission of this project requires a resolution or letter of local match commitment. Project is in the existing STIP, the project is being resubmitted in its STIP form. Bike projects require a 20% local match and must be locally administered. Right -of -way acquisition is also not a permissible cost to be funded by NCDOT for these projects. NOTES: 1) All projects previously submitted for consideration of inclusion in the TARPO regional priority list and the STIP are recommended for inclusion in this draft priority list; however, bike projects are shifted down in priority given their very low likelihood of scoring well against the SPOT 3.0 scoring criteria and the requirement that the County must commit to providing the 20% local match. Capital transit projects not previously considered that are components of the Orange County Bus and Rail Investment Plan implementation are included in this list and are ranked relatively high because they must rely on local input points to be funded. The INC 54 project was added to the list as priority #2 given the need for the project, its likelihood of scoring higher than other candidate projects, and its eligibility for funding from both the regional and divisional tiers, which makes it more likely to be funded. Although included as priority #5 in this list, the Efland -Cedar Grove project was removed from Orange County's priority list in 2011 because it did not score well in previous scoring iterations and bikeway improvements were anticipated not to meet the $1,000,000 threshold for being considered a highway project. The Efland -Cedar Grove Road improvements project is being added to the list because of some added emphasis on safety in the State's scoring criteria, giving the project a higher likelihood for potential funding than in previous scoring iterations. 2) The following projects within the TARPO planning area portion of Orange County are currently in the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program ISTIPI: Construct four (4) -foot paved shoulders along a five (5) -mile segment on Orange Grove Road from NC 54 to Arthur Minnis Road. This project is programmed in the STIP to be constructed in 2018; however, because the project is programmed for construction after July 2015, it will be subject to reprioritization under the newly adopted SPOT 3.0 process and is listed as a bike project with a total project cost of $500,000. This project may be resubmitted as a new bike project if the County desires to provide the required local match. Feasibility study for Dairyland Road paved shoulders project. Construct paved shoulders and rumble strips and make geometric improvements on NC 86 from NC 57 to the Caswell County line a total length of 12.2 miles. This project is underway and is expected to be completed by the end of October 2013.