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' Gordon, June 16, 1992 <br />8. 15 -501 w 1dening <br />issues. <br />Would you contact David Bonk and get his - thoughts on the following <br />i. What is Chapel Hill's reasoning in wanting the Jack Bennett Road <br />extension (as opposed to the major thoroughfare along the curent Jack <br />Bennett/ Lystra Church Road alignment)? Is there a compromise solution? <br />2. Should the 15 -501 project be divided into segments? If so, <br />would the following segments be reasonable? (They would be built in the <br />following order, from south to_nort.h, - -if they were all to be constructed.) <br />Perhaps segment a could be constructed at any time, while b and c might <br />have to await resolution of the Jack- Bennet Road Extension question. <br />a. Chatham Co. section up to Jack Bennett Road <br />Reasoning: If 25% of the traffic would split off here to go east along an <br />irnproved Jack Sennett Road, then this would be a logical segment, <br />b, Chatham Co. section from Jack Bennett Road to the Orange County line <br />Reasoning by DOT: There are two roads traffic could use at this point. <br />However, the traffic going to RTP would surely follow 15-501 at this <br />juncture. How much traffic would actually split off -from 15 -501 at this <br />point? <br />c. orange Co. Section <br />3. Would there be merit in placing a park -and -ride lot farther <br />south than currently planned? If so, where? (This could be a second lot or <br />it might substitute for the currently planned lot at the southern park.) <br />4. Would widening 15 -501 have'any -effect on the need for the <br />Laurel Hill parkway? If so, what effect? If not, why not? Virginia <br />Engelhard raised this issue at the TAC. meeting. <br />I would appreciate anything you might f ind which could illuminate <br />these issues. Thank you very much. <br />