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' r . <br /> 14. <br /> DURHAM City of Durham <br /> .= North Carolina <br /> # Department of Transportation <br /> 1 Z * 101 City Hall Plaza Phone (419) 56(}4366 <br /> **** Durham, North Carolina 27701 FAX(919) 687-0896 <br /> 4 <br /> 1 8 6 9 <br /> CITYOFMEDICINE August 25, 1994 <br /> MEMO TO: David Bonk, Town of Chapel Hill <br /> Dick Hails, County of Durham <br /> Margaret.Hauth, Town of Hillsborough <br /> Mary Hough, Durham Area Transit Authority <br /> Slade McCalip, County of Orange <br /> Keith Megginson, County of Chatham <br /> Jim Ritchey, Triangle Transit Authority <br /> Dan Thomas, Statewide Planning Branch, NCDOT <br /> Kenneth Withrow, Town of Carrboro % l / / <br /> FROM: H. Wesley Parham, Senior Transportation Engineer I <br /> SUBJECT: Regional Priority List for FY 1996-2002 Transportation Improvement Program <br /> The Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro MPO is reevaluating its Regional Priority List. This list will <br /> be used for the identification and selection of future transportation improvement projects to be <br /> funded with federal and State transportation funds. <br /> By the end of October, units of local government should reexamine local priorities submitted to <br /> the MPO last Fall. Local boards may elect to adjust local priority lists to reflect the few regional <br /> projects which received funding in the State's 1995-2001 Transportation Improvement Program. <br /> Local boards are encouraged to endorse the projects identified in the State TIP for your area. <br /> They may use this opportunity to reaffirm local and MPO opposition to the State's proposed <br /> widening of Interstate 40 from the Durham Freeway (NC 147) and Interstate I-85 in <br /> Hillsborough. <br /> We suggest that you inform your local board of the regional priority given to local requests. A <br /> copy of the Regional Priority List is enclosed. If your board chooses to add or reorder its local <br /> projects, advise them of the criteria considered by the MPO in ordering local priorities into, <br /> regional priorities. This criteria includes: (1) selection of projects from adopted regional and <br /> local transportation plans; (2) the regional significance of the, project; (3) congestion <br /> improvements; (4) accident history and safety benefits; (5) project costs/benefits; (6) reduction <br /> of single-occupant vehicles; (7) scheduled transit replacement capital; and (8) economic <br /> development opportunities. Projects requested by multiple jurisdictions are given more weight. <br /> An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer <br />