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Jurisdiction and Implementation of Infrastructure Projects <br />The Town is responsible for the implementation of its Community Connectivity Plan. Priority <br />projects related to Cameron Park Elementary School and C.W. Stanford Middle School <br />include sidewalks, crosswalks, and bike lanes. <br />Orange County Planning staff and NCDOT have identified recommendations related to <br />Grady Brown Elementary School and Cedar Ridge High School as potentially viable <br />projects in the SRTS Plan. These projects would include sidewalks along the New Grady <br />Brown School Road frontage and along Orange Grove Road to Interstate 40, where these <br />sidewalks would serve as receiving sidewalks for a pedestrian crossing across the <br />interstate and into the Town’s jurisdiction. If the County were to take steps towards this <br />multi-phase project implementation, it would initially need to: <br />x Contract or perform in-house engineering design of sidewalks, including an <br />estimated cost of construction; <br />x Obtain an easement encroachment agreement with NCDOT; <br />x Enter into a mutually agreeable sidewalk maintenance agreement with the Town; <br />x Enlist the schools as partners in the project planning; and <br />x Acquire funding for the engineering and construction of the sidewalks, which would <br />include a 20% local match, and seek competitive federal funds through the DCHC <br />MPO; or fund the project through County funds. <br />The interstate pedestrian overpass may become a more viable project following <br />construction of the receiving sidewalks. <br />Jurisdiction and Implementation of Non-infrastructure Projects <br />Implementation of the SRTS Action Plan can also address non-infrastructure projects in the <br />categories education, encouragement, enforcement, and evaluation. The Town and <br />County would be responsible for implementing projects within their respective jurisdictions. <br />Examples of these non-infrastructure project recommendations could include: <br />x Integration of bicycle/pedestrian education into the class curriculum, including <br />hands-on skills training such as simulated street crossings and bicycle handling <br />drills/rodeos; <br />x Start a comprehensive motorist/pedestrian/bicyclist safety campaign to create <br />awareness of conflicts and safety behavior; <br />x Begin a walking school bus program including a partnership of the school system, <br />parents and members of the community, including law enforcement; <br />x Begin mileage clubs/contests that can give children a sense of accomplishment; <br />x Begin a crossing guard program; <br />x Develop SRTS bicycle/walking maps; <br />x Starting a Walk to School Day; and <br />x Perform an update of the surveys identifying numbers of students walking and biking <br />to school, or desiring to, and the key factors affecting parents’ decisions to allow or <br />disallow children to walk or bike to schools. <br />Many of these non-infrastructure projects cannot be fully implemented without the <br />construction of the related infrastructure (sidewalks, bike lanes, cross walks, etc.). <br />12