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16 Trust Fund revenues and the mileage paved varies according to the revenues generated from year to year. The 1993-94 program proposes paving 12 miles of rural roads at a cost of $ 1. 2 million. Assuming a continuing rate of 10-12 miles per year, it will take almost 15 years complete the County' s paving needs . A highly touted feature of the ISTEA legislation is the flexibility of funding. Previous highway legislation has fixed funding for roadway improvements according to federal road classification, however, ISTEA allows for the funding of roads or other transportation modes to be derived from one of many sources. Last year Orange County requested the NC Board of Transportation look at innovative ways to fund the Secondary Roads Paving Program through the flexible funding process. The Program is independent of the TIP process, however the need for completion is so great that the County has felt it appropriate to request NCDOT look at alternative funding formats. Although the legislation prohibits the allocation of funds to local roads such as those on the pavement schedule, the County requested NCDOT investigate alternatives to reallocate ISTEA money in order to free up Highway Trust Fund dollars. The recommended alternative was to request NCDOT allocate some or all of the Trust Fund money allocated to the I-85 widening project to the Orange County Secondary Paving program. Under ISTEA flexibility provisions, the I-85 Trust Fund money could be replaced with Interstate or National Highway System funds . This alternative could provide a possible completion of the rural road paving program by the year 2000. The 1994-2000 TIP has not addressed this proposal. The 1993-94 NCDOT Secondary Road Improvement Program continues to receive its funding from Highway Trust Fund revenues at the same rate. There have been no reallocation efforts. I-85 Corridor Projects Project I-305 , widening I-85 to six lanes and reconstructing interchanges and structures from Orange Grove Road to the Durham County line is a project in the State' s 1992-98 TIP. The portion of this project from just west of University Station Road to the Durham County line is in the DCHC Urban Area. The TAC requested in 1992 that this project include bicycle and pedestrian facilities on roads that cross the Interstate and design for bikeways/greenways that cross I-85. The County recommended funding for this proposal come from National Highway System funds. The 1994-2000 TIP includes provisions for bicycle safety improvements at the Churton Street interchange with Interstate 85 in the Bicycle Program. One problem with this is that the NCDOT Bicycle Program is not always coordinated well with roadway projects which are already under construction or design. It is recommended that Orange " County continue to request this