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213 Durham Chapel Hill Carrboro MPO list <br />214 <br />215 Bret Martin: Reviewed list of priority transportation projects. <br />216 <br />217 Paul Guthrie: Does the STIP process allow you to articulate one of the reasons why there is such a problem <br />218 right above 15/501 on I -40 westbound? Namely, they lose a lane, it drops to two lanes and it backs up for miles. <br />219 I realize in this scoring game that doesn't play out, but that road is not adequate to receive the traffic coming into <br />220 it. <br />221 <br />222 Bret Martin: Safety is a component of the scoring but that is only along the segment of the road that is <br />223 considered, not a segment remote from the project. <br />224 <br />225 Heidi Perry: You said I -85's widening was taken off the STIP because traffic had not increased the way NCDOT <br />226 had predicted it would, so why do we expect the traffic on I -40 to increase? And NCDOT doesn't think the <br />227 building of the light rail will alleviate the traffic on I -40? <br />228 <br />229 Bret Martin: Because traffic on I -40 has increased. On I -85, the traffic hasn't really increased. Who uses I -40? <br />230 It is Alamance County commuters, and on NC 54 it's Alamance County commuters and Western Orange County <br />231 going to Chapel Hill. They are using I -40 to go to RTP and south Durham, etc. Look at the major employment <br />232 destinations and look at the origins and growing residential origins in Orange County, explains a lot of it. <br />233 Downtown Durham and Duke are big employment hubs, and I -85 is the connection to that, but the traffic is not <br />234 really growing, but on I -40 it is. I -40 is pretty much at capacity from NC 86 to 15/501. <br />235 <br />236 Heidi Perry: When you add more lanes, don't you bring more cars? <br />237 <br />238 Bret Martin: That is something what happens. This is usually assessed with the cumulative impacts assessment <br />239 of NEPA environmental impact assessment for a STIP project. Chapel Hill and Carrboro are not accepting the <br />240 growth they were expected to accept but maybe should accept in order to bring people closer to theirjobs. <br />241 Alamance County's growth is exploding, with a very strong commuting relationship with the Triangle. Some of <br />242 this has been absorbed by Chatham County, and north of Pittsboro. <br />243 <br />244 Heidi Perry: When I read this, I see that the main scoring thing is that you are improving the level of service, and <br />245 the cost benefit looks good because you are improving the level of service, but you are really not, you're just <br />246 bringing more cars into the service and spreading it out more. It seems you are double scoring. <br />247 <br />248 Bret Martin: But if it costs in congestion scores, it basically double counts congestion as a score. <br />249 <br />250 Paul Guthrie: If a road becomes less usable, what happens? They go to another road. That puts pressure on <br />251 mass transit, utility systems, and all kinds of things that come off this. We are next door to one of the fastest <br />252 growing cities in America. We are at the crisis point of how we handle the future in transportation. <br />253 <br />254 Amy Cole: I want to make sure I get my plug in for these projects. Numbers 13, 14 and 16. Numbers 13 and 16 <br />255 are tied together as projects to help out with the Safe Routes to School program and scoring seems significantly <br />256 different. Item 14, this project was scoring much higher. I want to ensure that stays on the list so that at some <br />257 point it happens. <br />258 <br />259 Alex Castro: I agree. I don't understand why 13, 14 and 16, particularly 13 and 14 which are in the Orange <br />260 County Safe Routes Action Plan aren't higher priority. They have higher scoring. <br />261 <br />262 Bret Martin: This is not a scoring list, just a list that will be submitted to the BOCC. Because we are so limited <br />263 on the projects we can submit for scoring, we might be in the position of needing to prioritize before we submit <br />264 so that we can tell them which ones are more important to us locally. If the SPOT 4.0 committee determines that <br />
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