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18 <br /> Transportation Improvements HS Route Proposed Extension <br /> Most properties in the study area are accessed from Purefoy Drive off Rogers Road. <br /> Rogers Road is a two lane facility currently classified as a collector street by the <br /> EUBANKS RD N <br /> North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT).The traffic volume in 2007 A ER DA RD <br /> was approximately 5,000 vehicles per day,a rise from 3,000 vehicles per day in <br /> c$P J <br /> 1990. (In general traffic on Rogers Road has increased by 4 to 6 percent per year.) s� UREFOY DR <br /> Purefoy Drive as currently constructed is sufficient to accommodate 500- 1,500 R <br /> vehicle trips per day. <br /> HOMESTEAD D <br /> The Task Force recommendations propose that new development in the study area <br /> may require expansion or upgrade of existing streets. The Task Force identified the CHOOLR p <br /> C. .H.S <br /> need for additional access to the neighborhood and more internal road connec- r <br /> Smith Middle y m <br /> lions (See Figure 6) In particular they identified the need to have a north-south r p <br /> Sea well Ele—+ 2 <br /> N � <br /> roadway connection through the study area to connect to Eubanks Road. W <br /> r o <br /> N <br /> 2 ESTES DR <br /> Orange County owns approximately 70 percent of the property with frontage on o <br /> Eubanks Road including the landfill site,the solid waste operations center and the 'vR <br /> ss'�s <br /> animal shelter. The Task Force considered options to provide an east to west road <br /> connection to the neighborhood through the Greene Tract. ° <br /> m <br /> of <br /> �u <br /> ti <br /> Transit Service <br /> Currently,the Rogers Road area is served by Chapel Hill Transit paratransit and <br /> G <br /> Share-a-Ride services. Chapel Hill Transit has received funding to revise existing Legend `N <br /> transit service in the Rogers Road area. It is anticipated that this expansion of tran- . Stops <br /> sit service will be implemented by the end of the second quarter of 2009. Figure 5 Proposed Extension a �0 <br /> HS Route <br /> shows one option for extending transit service along Rogers Road. Until additional Streets 9� <br /> operational and funding details are finalized,this route remains conceptual in <br /> nature. Source: Chapel Hill Transit 0 0.25 0.5 1 Miles <br /> Date: 5/27/08 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 <br /> Figure 5 - HS Route Proposed Extension <br />® Rogers Road Task Force Report <br />