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22 Attachment 6: Draft Durham - Chapel Hill - Carrboro (DCHC) MPO Project Priority List Project Rank /Map ID # Project Project Description /Need Status (New /Existing Project) Existing Project Score/ Rank Staff Recommendation Submit to DCHC MPO for SPOT 3.0 scoring and consideration of inclusion in the DCHC MPO TIP and the STIP as project priority #1 as a new pedestrian /Safe Description: Routes to School project. If project is not selected as a successful Safe Routes to School- funded project, the County a) Construct a pedestrian bridge over I -40 alongside Orange Grove Road and construct a Component of project scored in must commit to provide the required 20% local match, and locally administer /manage the project. The estimated sidewalk along the north side of Orange Grove Road from the bridge to Timbers Drive; SPOT 2.0 prioritization as a construction cost of the project according to the NCDOT b) Construct sidewalks along both sides of New Grady Brown School Road with midblock Pedestrian project. Ranked SPOT office and Safe Routes to School Action Plan is crossing; and 559/629 for all bike /ped projects $1,269,000 and the estimated right -of -way cost is $9,000, Orange Grove c) Construct sidewalk along one side of Oakdale Drive from Cheshire Drive to Orange scored in the state. Ranked 24/24 which would require a local match of roughly $262,800. Any Road /I -40 Pedestrian Grove Road. New Pedestrian /Safe by the MPO for pedestrian projects right-of-way would not be covered by the State's share 1 Bridge and Routes to School scored in SPOT 2.0. Project is .costs o f funding. The submission of this project as a pedestrian Supporting Sidewalk Need: 1 -40 separates two schools, Grady Brown Elementary and Cedar Ridge High School, Project" anticipated to rank low among all project independent of Safe Routes to School funding Improvements— from residential areas north of 1 -40. The schools are within walking distance of residential bike /ped projects scored in the requires a resolution or letter of local match commitment. If areas, but bicyclists and pedestrians must share the roadway with motor vehicles crossing the division tier; however, the project is the project is funded as a Safe Routes to School project, it existing narrow two (2) -lane bridge that carries Orange Grove Road over 1 -40. The bridge is too being considered for Safe Routes may be eligible for 100% funding. narrow to accommodate a pedestrian walkway. Lack of an adequate pedestrian crossing to School funding separate from presents an unsafe environment for students to walk to the schools. The Orange County Safe other pedestrian projects. Project will also be submitted for consideration of Surface Routes to School Action Plan identifies the pedestrian bridge and supporting sidewalk Transportation Program- Direct Apportionment (STP -DA) and improvements as central elements in the plan for Grady Brown Elementary School. Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) funding to be determined internally by the MPO; however, a 20% local match would still be required to secure this funding. 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 Submit to DCHC MPO for SPOT 3.0 scoring and Orange Public additional six (6), 25 -foot, 18- passenger cutaway bus vehicles to accommodate potential bus consideration of inclusion in the DCHC MPO TIP and the Transportation service expansion to both rural demand response services and intra- Hillsborough, Hillsborough STIP as project priority #2 as a new transit project. Expansion Vehicles to Chapel Hill, and Mebane /Efland /Hillsborough fixed -route services. The exact number of 2 to Implement the expansion vehicles to be submitted will depend on the final outcome of bus service expansion New Transit Project (Not N/A Project will also be submitted for consideration of STP -DA Orange County Bus objectives identified in the DRAFT Five -Year Orange County Bus Service Expansion Program previously submitted)" funding to be determined internally by the MPO; however, a and Rail Investment currently under development by Triangle Transit in partnership with Orange County staff that 20% local match would be required to secure this funding as Plan (OCBRIP) will be brought before the BOCC in December for consideration and feedback. opposed to a 10% local match if selected for funding via the The estimated cost per expansion vehicle in 2015 dollars is $71,500. If awarded expansion State's scoring and STIP development process. 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. 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.