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Attachment 4: Draft Triangle Area Rural Planning Organization (TARPO) Project List Rank/ Map ID #* Project Project Description/Need SPOT 3.0 Score SPOT 4.0 Score 6 Orange Grove Road/Dodsons Crossroads Paved Shoulders Description: Widen Orange Grove Road (SR 1006) from I-40 to Dodsons Crossroads (SR 1102) and Dodsons Crossroads (SR 1102) from Orange Grove Road (SR 1006) to Dairyland Road (SR 1177) to include four (4)-foot paved shoulders. This project is recommended as a set of bikeway improvements in the OCCTP. Need: This project would provide bicycle facilities to the Grady Brown Elementary School and Cedar Ridge High School from the area south of the schools and connect to a proposed bikeway facility on Orange Grove Road northward into Hillsborough. The project would also improve safety for motorized vehicular travel on this segment of Orange Grove Road. The project is not likely to score very high using the State’s bike/pedestrian scoring factors because of its rural context and is only eligible for funding in the division tier. 15.09 Division Not Carried Forward @ RPO Level *Map ID Number corresponds to the general location of each project on Attachment 4: TARPO Project List Map. ** Bicycle (and pedestrian) projects require a 20% local match and must be locally administered. Right-of-way acquisition is also not a permissible cost to be funded by NCDOT for these projects. Bicycle projects may be eliminated from the RPO process to submit projects for prioritization in the absence of a letter of commitment from the Board of County Commissioners providing funding for the local match, right-of-way costs, and local administration. Projects Deleted From Draft Priority List Project Project Description Reason For Deletion NC 54 Operational Improvements (Orange Grove Road to Old Fayetteville Road) Description: Implement operational improvements along NC 54 from Orange Grove Road (SR 1006) to Old Fayetteville Road (SR 1937/1107) to address congestion, safety, intersecting street turning movement delays, and the lack of usable gaps in traffic for side street access to the facility as an alternative to widening the facility to four (4) lanes. Improvements may involve signalization at problem intersections, additional dedicated left and right turn storage at side streets, and other possible treatments. This facility and the subject corridor are recommended in the Orange County Comprehensive Transportation Plan (OCCTP) as in need of widening from two (2) lanes to four (4) lanes, which is the form the project took when last submitted for consideration of inclusion in the 2016-2025 STIP. These proposed operational improvements to the facility are an alternative to the initially conceived widening project and come in response to opposition by Town of Carrboro planning staff regarding the facility’s widening. The OUTBoard was presented with both options and voted to recommend pursuit of the option to implement these alternative operational improvements. Need: NCDOT projections reveal that traffic on NC 54 from Orange Grove Road to Fayetteville Road will substantially exceed the existing roadway capacity by 2035, warranting an increase in capacity through widening. NCDOT traffic figures already indicate that traffic along the segment of NC 54 from Butler Road/Dodsons Cross Road to Neville Road is at capacity and will only continue to substantially exceed capacity in future years. Given these figures, it is also likely that traffic along the segment of NC 54 from Neville Road to Old Fayetteville Road is also at or over capacity. Specific user input on the subject corridor reveals the lack of usable gaps in traffic streams at intersecting streets during peak periods that otherwise might be created by signali zation. User input also reveals the presence of extensive travel lane delay on the NC 54 facility as a result of the lack of adequate storage for left and right turns at some intersecting streets and entrances to businesses along the corridor. Among all projects recommended in the OCCTP, this project would likely score the highest relative to other projects given the improvements the project would provide for both congestion and benefit-cost factors. This project is also eligible for funding at both the regional and divisional tiers, providing it a greater opportunity to be funded than projects that are only eligible for funding at the division tier. This project will also be submitted as part of the DCHC MPO project list because it overlaps the MPO’s planning area boundary. Funded under SPOT P4.0 NC 54 Operational Improvements (Dodsons Crossroads/Butler Road to Old Fayetteville Road) Description: Implement operational improvements along NC 54 from Dodsons Crossroads/Butler Road (SR 1102/1951) to Old Fayetteville Road (SR 1937/1107) to address congestion, safety, intersecting street turning movement delays, and the lack of usable gaps in traffic for side street access to the facility as an alternative to widening the facility to four (4) lanes. Improvements may involve signalization at problem intersections, additional dedicated left and right turn storage at side streets, and other possible treatments. This facility and the subject corridor are recommended in the Orange County Comprehensive Transportation Plan (OCCTP) as in need of widening from two (2) lanes to four (4) lanes, which is the form the project took when last submitted for consideration of inclusion in the 2016-2025 STIP. These proposed operational improvements to the facility are an alternative to the initially conceived widening project and come in response to opposition by Town of Carrboro planning staff regarding the facility’s widening. The OUTBoard was presented with both options and voted to recommend pursuit of the option to implement these alternative operational improvements. Need: NCDOT projections reveal that traffic on NC 54 from Orange Grove Road to Old Fayetteville Road will substantially exceed the existing roadway capacity by 2035, warranting an increase in capacity through widening. NCDOT traffic figures already indicate that traffic along the segment of NC 54 from Butler Project Extents Modified to Previous Project 22