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Attachment 6: Draft Durham - Chapel Hill - Carrboro (DCHC) MPO Project List Map ID #' Project Project Description/Need SPOT 3.0 Score Up to six (6), 25 -foot, 18- passenger cutaway bus vehicles to accommodate bus service These vehicles were submitted to compete for a 100% State match during the last Description: Construct a multi -use path connecting the southwest comer of Patriots Pointe to Timbers Drive to shorten walking distances expansion as recommended in the Orange County Bus and Rail Investment Plan iteration of STIP development The vehicles did not score high enough to receive the and Rail Investment Plan (OCBRIP) for pedestrians. State Match and will be considered replacement vehicles as opposed to expansion 17 Trail Connection from Patriots Pointe to Need: Project is recommended as an improvement in the Orange County Safe Routes to School Action Plan. An existing barrier to 20.57 Division Implement park - and -ride improvements in the Efland area for cross -county, fixed -route Timbers Drive pedestrians exists between Patriots Point Apartments and Timbers Drive such that long walking distances are required for pedestrians service between Mebane and Durham. Efland stop on the Go Triangle Orange- Durham Express service has been established from Patriots Pointe to access the New Grady Brown Elementary School and Cedar Ridge High School along Orange Grove Road with no at the Efland- Cheeks Community center. Orange Grove Road Extension Extend Orange Grove Road from the east side of South Chudon Street (SR 1009) to designated pedestrian facilities. The improvement would provide a direct pedestrian connection from Patriots Point to Timbers Drive and U.S. 70 Business not need to be resubmitted. Orange Grove Road in the direction of the schools that make walking distances more manageable. 'Map I Number corresponds to the general location or each project on Attachment 1: DCHC MPO Project List Map. "Bike/Pedestrian projects require a 20q local match and must be locally administered. Right- of-way acquisition is also not a permissible cost to be funded by NCDOT forthese projects. Proiects Deleted From Draft Prioritv List Project Project Description Reason For Deletion Orange Public Transportation Expansion Up to six (6), 25 -foot, 18- passenger cutaway bus vehicles to accommodate bus service These vehicles were submitted to compete for a 100% State match during the last Vehicles to Implement the Orange County Bus expansion as recommended in the Orange County Bus and Rail Investment Plan iteration of STIP development The vehicles did not score high enough to receive the and Rail Investment Plan (OCBRIP) (OCBRIP) and the Five -Year Orange County Bus Service Expansion Program. State Match and will be considered replacement vehicles as opposed to expansion vehicles for this next iteration of STIP development Park - and -Ride Improvements in Efland Implement park - and -ride improvements in the Efland area for cross -county, fixed -route This was a Go Triangle project that will not be implemented on a greenfield site. An (Conceptual) service between Mebane and Durham. Efland stop on the Go Triangle Orange- Durham Express service has been established at the Efland- Cheeks Community center. Orange Grove Road Extension Extend Orange Grove Road from the east side of South Chudon Street (SR 1009) to This project is funded in the committed portion of the draft 2016 -2025 STIP and does U.S. 70 Business not need to be resubmitted. This was a Go Triangle project that may be implemented on a greenfield site in the Park -and Ride Improvements in Hillsborough Implement park - and -ride improvements in Hillsborough for cross-county, fixed -route future. A temporary parkand -ride for the Orange- Durham Express route has been (Conceptual) service between Mebane and Durham. established at the North Hills Shopping Center until a permanent greenfield site can be identified and constructed. Construct a train station in Hillsborough and implement AMTRAK service as designated Hillsborough Train Station in Hillsborough's Rail Station Small Area Plan and in the Orange County Bus and Rail This project is funded in the committed portion of the draft 2016 -2025 STIP and does Investment Plan. The train station could also serve future commuter rail operations and not need to be resubmitted. anchor a multimodal transportation hub in Hillsborough. Buckhom Economic Development District Construct a park- and -ride facility to be located in the 1- 85'Buckhorn Road Economic A shared -use park-and-ride, facility been established at the Cone Health (EDD) /Mebane Area Park -and -Ride Development District (EDD) or Mebane area to collect ridership in eastern Alamance MedCenter Mebane MedC and western Orange Counties. This project does not score high enough in the Statewide or Regional funding tiers and Widen 1 -85 from four (4) lanes to six (6) lanes from the 1- 4011 -85 interchange to the is too expensive in the Division funding tier to be included in the STIP. Traffic counts I -85 Widening Durham County line and reconstruct interchanges and bridge structures. have shown trends in traffic along the facility to be relatively stable over the past few years, and Orange County and the Town of Hillsborough's focus has shifted to improving the interchanges at Old NC 86 and NC 86.