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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No itzm g <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: January 4, 1993 <br /> SUBJECT: Bridges Across North Carolina Railroad - Durham East-West <br /> Expressway Extension <br /> DEPARTMENT County Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING YES NO X <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) INFORMATION CONTACT <br /> Draft Resolution Moses Carey, Jr. <br /> 12/18/92 TTA Letter TELEPHONE NUMBER <br /> 12/11/92 TTA Memo Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> 12/17/92 TTA Resolution Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> Map of Area Mebane 227-2031 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> PURPOSE: To consider a request from the Triangle Transit Authority to <br /> support its request that the North Carolina Department of <br /> Transportation (NCDOT) redesign bridge plans for the extension of the <br /> Durham East-West Expressway. - <br /> BACKGROUND: The Triangle Transit Authority (TTA) has asked that Orange <br /> County request NCDOT to redesign the bridges planned across the North <br /> Carolina Railroad for the extension of the Durham East-West Expressway. <br /> Current DOT plans for these bridges would span only one railroad track. <br /> The TTA is conducting a study of fixed guideway alternatives in the <br /> Triangle, and would like to preserve options for using the North <br /> Carolina Railroad corridor for this purpose. TTA feels that NCDOT <br /> should redesign the railroad bridge plans to accommodate four sets of <br /> tracks for future uses. <br /> The attached correspondence from TTA provides additional background on <br /> this matter. The draft resolution, patterned after the resolution <br /> adopted by the TTA Board of Trustees on December 17, 1992, can be <br /> considered should the Board of Commissioners decide to support the TTA <br /> request to the Department of Transportation. <br /> RECOMMENDATION: As the Board decides. <br /> , I <br />