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11� 2 Statement to North Carolina Board of Transportation June 5, 1979 Page 2 4. The Orange County Commissioners understand the Chatham County Commissioners will request ihat improvements to Lystra Church Road (SR 1730) from n 15-501 NE to 54 be included in the seven year Highway Improvement Program. This project, if programmed and funded, appears to solve some congestion in Orange County by diverting traffic bound for Durham and the Research Triangle from 54 Bypass. The Orange County Commissioners, therefore, support and endorse the request to be made by Chatham County for this improvement. We do not see a need to build a so-called Southern Bypass and urge that such a road NOT be included in the seven year Highway Improvement. Program. Requests 1 through 4 herein stated provide for sensible and economical management of this traffic for now and for the foreseeable future. Because such a road would lie entirely outside any municipality, we respectfully submit that it should not be included unless and until endorsed by the units of government directly responsible in the areas involved, i. e, the Orange and Chatham Boards of Commissioners. 5. The Orange County Commissioners support the Town of Hillsborough Board's request that a study be made of the possibility of widening Nash Street within at least the t=ext seven years and that the intersections of Highway 70 and Highway 86 North, the intersection of Highway 70A Nest and Faucette Mill Road and the intersection of Highway 70 West and St. Marys Road be included in the seven year Highway Improvement Program. 6. We still have need for the upgrading of NC 86 from I-85 south to Chapel Hill. We are not now requesting, nor has the request been, to four lane NC 86. Our request is to improve NC 86 on the order of 54 west of Carrboro to the Orange-Alamance County line. This upgrading would redesign dangerous ir,carsections at Whitfield Road, Eubanks Road and other inter- sections, eliminate dangerous curves, build up the shoulders and widen the existing two lanes. We also request that NC 54 east of Chapel Hill to the Research Triangle be four laved. We are aware that currently the seven year Highway Improvement Program has addressed these two projects with the proposed construction of 1-40. We again make the point that these improvements are needed to solve local and regional traffic problems. 7. We request that 1-40 be deleted from the current seven year Highway Improvement Program. Submitted this the 5th day of June, 1979. ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS By: - Richard E. Whitted, Chairman i' n �z