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23 Attachment 6: Draft Durham - Chapel Hill - Carrboro (DCHC) MPO Project Priority List Project Status Existing Project Score/ Rank /Map Project Project Description /Need (New /Existing Rank Staff Recommendation ID # Project) Description: Implement park- and -ride improvements in the Efland area for cross - county, fixed - route service between Mebane and Durham. Need: The DRAFT Five -Year Orange County Bus Service Expansion Program currently under Submit to DCHC MPO for SPOT 3.0 scoring and development may recommend park- and -ride improvements to be made in the Efland area to consideration of inclusion in the DCHC MPO TIP and STIP connect Efland area residents to proposed cross - county fixed -route service to be implemented as project priority #3 as a new transit project. Park - and -Ride by either Triangle Transit or OPT. The location, extent and cost of improvements have not yet 3 Improvements in been determined, however, if the proposed improvements are awarded Federal and State New Transit Project (Not N/A Project will also be submitted for consideration of STP -DA Efland (Conceptual) funding sources, a minimum 10 % percent local match would be required. previously submitted) funding to be determined internally by the MPO; however, a Revenue from the1 /2- percent sales tax and the vehicle registration fee can be expended on 20% local match would be required to secure this funding as park- and -ride improvements, however, it has not been determined whether the source of local opposed to a 10% local match if selected for funding via the match funding for this project would be OPT's or Triangle Transit's share of revenue for bus State's scoring and STIP development process. service expansion. This project submission is meant to be a placeholder for the finer details of specific park- and -ride improvement needs to be determined when the recommendations for those needs are finalized. Submit to DCHC MPO for SPOT 3.0 scoring and Description: consideration of inclusion in the DCHC MPO TIP and the STIP as project priority #4 as a new pedestrian /Safe a) Construct sidewalk along west side of Orange High School Road from Harold Latta Routes to School project. If project is not selected as a Road to U.S. 70; successful Safe Routes to School- funded project, the County b) Construct sidewalk along south side of Harold Latta Road from Cloverfield Drive to must commit to provide the required 20% local match and Orange Grove Road; locally administer /manage the project. The estimated c) Install high - visibility crosswalks and in -road signage at school entrances and exits on construction cost of the project according to the Safe Routes Orange High School Orange Grove Road; and New Pedestrian /Safe to School Action Plan is $260,000, which would require a 4 Road /Harold Latta d) Construct sidewalk along entrance roads to CW Stanford Middle School. Routes to School N/A local match of roughly $26,000 if the project is not funded as Road Sidewalk Project a Safe Routes to School project. The submission of this Improvements Need: Orange Grove Road serves two schools north of U.S. 70, Orange High School and CW project as a pedestrian project independent of Safe Routes to Stanford Middle School. There are currently no dedicated pedestrian facilities along Orange School funding requires a resolution or letter of local match High School Road to accommodate students accessing the schools from residential areas to commitment. If the project is funded as a Safe Routes to the north and east. The project would provide safe and comfortable pedestrian connections School project, it may be eligible for 100 % funding. from these areas to the schools. The Orange County Safe Routes to School Action Plan Project will also be submitted for consideration of STP -DA identifies these sidewalk and crosswalk improvements as central elements in the plan for both and TAP funding to be determined internally by the MPO; Orange High School and CW Stanford Middle School. however, a 20% local match would still be required to secure this funding. Description: Develop congestion management, limited access, bicycle and pedestrian improvements, and aesthetic and capacity improvements along South Churton Street (Old NC Scored in SPOT 2.0 prioritization 86 /SR 1009) from 1 -40 to U.S. 70 Business. More specifically, the project would widen South Existing Highway as a Subregional Highway Mobility Churton Street along this segment to multiple lanes with a landscaped median and would Mobility Project project. Ranked 52/382 for all widen the railroad bridge. This project is recommended in the DCHC MPO Metropolitan submitted for scoring in Subregional Highway Mobility Submit to DCHC MPO for SPOT 3.0 scoring and South Churton Street Transportation Plan (MTP). The feasibility study completed by NCDOT in February 2002 SPOT 2.0. This project projects scored in the state. consideration of inclusion in the DCHC MPO TIP and the 5 (Old NC 86) recommends a four (4) -lane divided curb and gutter cross section with a 16 -foot median for the was submitted by Project was ranked 38/71 by the STIP as project priority #5 as a reprioritized highway Improvements entire segment. Orange County will stress the need to study improvements within the current Orange County as MPO for highway projects scored project. right -of -way (ROW) for the segment north of 1 -85 because of the significant built constraints project priority #2 in p p y in SPOT 2.0. The project is along the corridor and its proximity to the Town of Hillsborough's historic district. Orange 2011. anticipated to rank about the same County will request that, where conditions do not prevent the addition of frontage roads, the or slightly lower in SPOT 3.0 feasibility study include the addition of frontage roads with limited access from the corridor. prioritization.