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• Existing Transit Service Serving the Study Area <br /> • Orange County Planning Comment—Additional Transit Service <br /> o Enhanced bus element network : <br /> • A circulator shuttle that would provide service to: <br /> o Downtown Chapel Hill <br /> o The UNC Campus and future Carolina North <br /> • An adjusted OPT 420 bus route: <br /> o Rural Orange County & Hillsborough <br /> o Consider dedicated BRT lanes—as identified by Kimley Horn Traffic Analysis <br /> 2/18/2011, page 1.26 and 1.4 <br /> o High-order Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) <br /> • Walkability <br /> • Multi-modal Aspects <br /> • Future bus tie-in Light Rail <br /> F. Planned Roadway Improvements and General Comments in the Study Area <br /> Positive <br /> • Fordham Blvd (US 15-501) corridor is congested <br /> • Need for investment <br /> • Improvements are typically funded through DCHC-MPO <br /> • Some programmed <br /> • MPO recently (Nov. 2014) approved $2.17 million Ephesus-Fordham intersection <br /> improvement which decreases $8.8 million S-TIF estimate <br /> Negative <br /> • S-TIF or other Funding for roads is not a county function, however, participation in the <br /> prioritization of MPO projects is <br /> • State TIP/NCDOT Collaboration <br /> Positive <br /> • Mixed Use Project <br /> • Internal trip capture <br /> • Decrease typical external trip generation <br /> Negative <br /> • Stronger bus transit attributes <br /> • Downtown/college area integration (i.e. cross town shopping) <br /> Recommendations <br /> Building a Transit Infrastructure <br /> • Fund a study to review: <br /> 1. Circulator shuttle, <br /> 2. OPT 420 bus route adjustment (regional tie-in), and <br /> 3. Future BRT in corridor. <br /> • BRIP amendments to help fund above transit considerations <br /> • Circulator shuttle <br /> G. Stormwater/Flood Control Elements of the Plan <br /> 1. Background <br /> • Kimley-Horn & Associates Analysis in 201 <br /> 2. Specific Original Work <br /> 3. Original Costs Estimates <br /> • $1.2 million <br /> ➢ $210,000 for design <br />