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4. to Chapel Hill High School. A background investigation of this facility indicates safety problems associated with turning movements along the entire corridor limits. Left turns into driveways of large traffic generators such as the Duke Power Building and the Brookstone development, as well as at major intersections with Airport Road, prove dangerous due to sight- distance problems in existing road design. Substantial future traffic increases are expected on Homestead Road. Several residential developments are under construction in the vicinity of the Brookstone development and the Southern Human Services Complex will be constructed on Homestead Road in the near future. Orange County urges the North Carolina Board of Transportation to review the project limits for TIP Project U-2805 and revise the scope to include improvements from High School Road to Airport Road (NC 86), as described in the Regional Priority List. II. Bridge over Morgan Creek at Arboretum/Ashe Place (Independent Bicycle Program Project]. The current TIP proposes a feasibility study in 1997 for pedestrian and bicycle improvements for a Morgan Creek Bridge. Orange County supports the DCHC TAC recommendation that this project be programmed for a feasibility study in 1994 and construction in 1995. [Estimated construction cost is $50,000] iii. Two Projects Related to Traffic in Orange and Chatham Counties: US 15-501 Widening from Morgan Creek to the Chatham County Line TR-9421 and the Chatham Connector LR-29241. _ Orange County's major concern is with the timing of these two projects. Orange County supports the building of a southern connector road in Chatham County to handle traffic between Chatham County and destinations in the Research Triangle Park and Durham. Otherwise increased traffic will come through the already congested intersection between US 15-501 and SR 1008 and funnel through Chapel Hill. Orange County cannot support the widening of US 15-501 south of Chapel Hill from Mt. Carmel Church Road (SR 1008) to the Chatham County line unless a Chatham Connector is built previously or at the same time. Recognizing that these roads cross county and DOT district lines, the Commissioners encourage continued coordination of transportation planning at the county, municipal, district and Metropolitan Planning Organization level to handle this regional traffic. IV Projects Built with the STP Attributable Allocation Orange County supports the DCHC TAC position that the STP Attributable Allocation be reflected as a separate item in the 'UP. It is the County's position that the federal ISTEA legislation delegates to the TAC the authority to allocate these funds to projects selected by the TAC, in cooperation with NCDOT, rather than have the project selection rest solely with the NCDOT.