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�r � S N O R A N G E C 0 U N T Y BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: January 22 1991 Agenda Abstract Item # SUBJECT: FEASIBILITY STUDY - NC 54 WIDENING DEPARTMENT: Planning PUBLIC HEARING: __X_Yes No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: Feasibility Study Planning Director X2592 10 -15 -90 Planning Board Minutes 12-18 -90 Commissioners Minutes PHONE NUMBERS: Notice of Public Hearing Hillsborough 732 -8181 Mebane 227 -2031 Durham 688 -7331 Chapel Hill 967 -9251 PURPOSE: To receive citizen comment on a feasibility study for the proposed widening of N.C. Highway 54 in Orange County. BACKGROUND: NCDOT has provided a copy of a feasibility study of the proposed widening of N.C. Highway 54 from I -85/40 in Burlington to the N.C. Highway 54 Bypass in Carrboro /Chapel Hill. The project is included in the 1990 -1996 Transportation Improvement Program for feasibility study but is not currently funded. According to NCDOT, N.C. 54 is classified as a minor arterial on the County Functional Classification Plan. In the Orange County Transportation Plan, N.C. 54 is classified as a principal arterial on the rural portion and as a major thoroughfare on the urban (Chapel Hill) portion. The existing N.C. 54 is a two - -lane, 24 -foot paved road with 12 -foot shoulders, located in a 120 -foot right -of -way. A four -foot section of the shoulders on either side is paved. The existing speed limit in the rural portions of Orange County is 55 mph. The volume of traffic using the route ranges from 6,000 vehicles per day (vpd) at the Orange County line to 13,000 vpd near Carrboro. Volumes are expected to increase to 12,000- 17,000 vpd by 2010. The capacity of the existing road is 5,000 vpd. The proposed project is divided into three sections: A, B, and C. Section C comprises the majority of the