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• Cultural & Historic Resources <br /> • Public Parklands <br /> • Natural Resources <br /> • Energy Use <br /> • Traffic <br /> • Utilities <br /> • Air Quality <br /> • Water Quality <br /> • Land Use <br /> • Bicycle & Pedestrian Facilities <br /> • Visual & Aesthetic <br /> • Minority & Low-Income Population Impacts <br /> • Neighborhoods <br /> • Business & Residential Impacts <br /> • Population Served <br /> • Employment Served <br /> • Construction Impacts <br /> Five Key Decisions <br /> • Build or No Build <br /> • Little Creek Crossing <br /> • Duke/VA Station Location Choice <br /> • Rail Operations and Maintenance Facility (ROMF) Site <br /> • New Hope Creek Crossing <br /> To Build or Not to Build <br /> • Build <br /> • No Build <br /> Little Creek: C1 Eliminated <br /> • US Army Corps of Engineers (USACOE) provided a letter stating that C1A, C2, and <br /> C2A were viable alternatives but that C1 was not. <br /> • USACOE would not authorize use of federal government property (game lands and a <br /> waterfowl impoundment) for C1 "given the availability of less damaging alternatives." <br /> Little Creek: Travel Time <br /> • C2 time 56 seconds shorter than C1A <br /> • C2A time 10 seconds shorter than C2 <br /> Little Creek: Ridership <br /> • Lowest ridership alternative: C1A, NHC2, Duke Eye Care Center Station with 23,560 <br /> daily riders <br /> • C2 and C2A both add over 700 daily riders compared to C1A <br /> Little Creek: Capital Cost <br /> • Lowest capital cost alternative: C2, NHC-LPA, either Duke/VA station at $1.522 billion <br /> • C2A adds $7.6m in capital cost <br />