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O R A N G E C 0 U N T Y <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: February 19, 1991 <br />Agenda Abstract <br />Item # Y <br />SUBJECT: FEASIBILITY STUDY - NC 54 WIDENING <br />DEPARTMENT: Planning PUBLIC HEARING: _X—Yes No <br />ATTACSMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Feasibility Study Planning Director X2592 <br />10 -15 -90 Planning Board Minutes <br />12 -18 -90 Commissioners Minutes PHONE NUMBERS: <br />Notice of Public Hearing Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />1 -22 -91 Public Hearing Minutes Mebane 227 -2031 <br />2 -7 -91 Bingham TAC Comments Durham 688 -7331 <br />Citizen Correspondence Chapel Hill 967 -9251 <br />2 -11 -91 Town of Carrboro Comments <br />PURPOSE: To receive comments from the Towns of Carrboro and <br />Chapel Hill, and citizens submitted since the <br />January 22, 1991 public hearing on a feasibility <br />study for the proposed widening of N.C. Highway 54 <br />in Orange County. <br />Upon closing the public hearing, the Board of <br />Commissioners may act on the proposal. <br />BACKGROUND: NCDOT has provided a copy of <br />the proposed widening of N.0 <br />I -85/40 in Burlington to the <br />in Carrboro /Chapel Hill. The <br />the 1990 -1996 Transportation <br />feasibility study but is not <br />a feasibility study of <br />Highway 54 from <br />N.C. Highway 54 Bypass <br />project is included in <br />Improvement Program for <br />currently funded. <br />According to NCDOT, N.C. 54 is classified as a minor <br />arterial on the County Functional Classification <br />Plan. In the Orange County Transportation <br />Plan, N.C. �4 is classified as a principal arterial <br />on the rural portion and as a major thoroughfare on <br />the urban (Chapel Hill) portion. <br />The existing N.C. 54 is a two -lane, 24 -foot paved <br />road with 12 --foot shoulders, located in a 120 -foot <br />right -of -way. A four -foot section of the shoulders <br />on either side is paved. The existing speed limit in <br />the rural portions of Orange County is 55 mph. The <br />volume of traffic using the route ranges from 6,000 <br />vehicles per day (vpd) at the Orange County line to <br />