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Attachment 1 Orange County Transportation Planning Staff Comments on the Draft 2016-2025 Statewide Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) 1)U.S. 70 Bypass Bridge at Eno River (Project #B-4962):The area around the U.S. 70 bridge at the EnoRiver east of Hillsborough is a crucial connection for the North Carolina Mountains-to-Sea Trail and for connecting bicyclists and pedestrians to the Eno River State Park. As project development and bridge design begins, coordination with the Town of Hillsborough and Orange County, as well as the efforts to extend the Mountains-to-Sea Trail is needed. Specific comments on this project were sent to Ms. Brenda Poole, NCDOT Project Development and Environmental Analysis Branch, from the Orange County Planningand Inspections Department in a letter dated October 27, 2009. It is requested that these comments be reviewed before design of the bridge begins. 2)I-40 Widening from I-85 to U.S. 15-501 (Project #I-3306):Orange County, the Town of Chapel Hill, and the DCHC MPO request clarification on the scope of improvements proposed in the project. We request confirmation that the Chapel Hill-requested interchange improvements at NC 86 are included as part of the project. We also request an explanation for why right-of-way is scheduled for 2023 if the design is scheduled for completion in 2015 and the categorical exclusion is scheduled for completion in 2015 or 2016. We are concerned that the documentation of environmental analyses could expire prior to 2023, and we request that the right-of-way, construction and any mitigation phases be scheduled during the first five (5) years of the STIP. 3)I-40 Pavement Rehabilitation (Project #I-5822): We request that this project be coordinated with I-3306 to avoid duplicative paving and repaving costs. 4)South Churton Street Widening from I-40 to Eno River (Project #U-5845):The project involves the widening of South Churton Street at its interchange with I-85. The Town of Hillsborough and Orange County had previously been advised that the I-85 widening project needed to be scheduled first and that the interchange improvement could not be implemented independently. Has there been a change of opinion as to whether the interchange would need to be modified to implement the South Churton Street widening project, or is there some other way that the interchange improvement will be incorporated into the widening project? 5)Orange Grove Road Extension (Project #U-5848):In addition to overlapping with the South Churton Street widening project, the project also overlaps with the Hillsborough Train Station project. The timing and scope of all three projects aer connected and need to be considered in the scheduling of these projects. Additionally, there is a small project the Town of Hillsborough and the County have identified at the intersections of Eno Mountain Road and Mayo Street with Orange Grove Road that would ideally be added to this project scope. This is an off-set intersection that cannot accommodate signalization in its current 39 ReturntoAgenda