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i <br /> -2- <br /> 3. The Orange County Commissioners support the Chapel Hill Board of <br /> Aldermen's request to include the four laning of the current�Bypass from <br /> 3 <br /> I Eastgate Shopping Center to the Morgan Creek bridge in <br /> the seven year Highway Improvement Program. The Orange County Commissioners <br /> also support the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen's request to include the <br /> I / � O-1 <br /> four laninglof Manning Drive from 54? Bypass to Memorial Hospital and <br /> the request o include the four laning of Pittsboro Road from Mannin g Drive <br /> to the Morgan Creek bridge in the seven year Highway Improvement Program. <br /> 4. The Orange County Commissioners understand the Chath m County Commissioners <br /> will request that improvements to Lystral d from # '15 a <br /> 501. NE to 54 be included <br /> in the seven year Highway Improvement Program. 'This project, if programmed <br /> and funded, appears to solve some congestion in Orange County by diverting <br /> traffic bound for Durham and the Research Triangle from 54 Bypass. The Orange <br /> ' County Commissioners therefore support and endorse the request to be made g <br /> Ch t ap Count ' for this improvement, by <br /> year <br /> he2ed°" er-1--4o-i --Q*' r 11 <br /> We o have . need <br /> aqu for the upgrading of NC 86 from I-85 south to Chapel Hill. We are not <br /> now requesting nor has the request been, to four lane NC 86. Our request <br /> is to improve NC 86 on the order of 54 West of C q <br /> arrboro to the Orange <br /> --Alamance <br /> County line. T is upgrading would redesign dangerous intersections at <br /> Whitfield Road, Eubanks Road and other intersections, eliminate dangerous curves <br /> build up the shoulders and widen the existing two lanes. y <br />