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Orange County & NCDOT Highway Luncheon <br />Division 7 and District 1 <br />October 30, 2013 12:00 p.m. <br />11/07/13 <br /> <br /> area to alert truck traffic and they cannot go west down Old NC Hwy 10 <br /> because of three low rail overpasses. She said that Chuck had advised her <br /> that it was not possible (legal) to prohibit truck traffic on Old NC Hwy 10 but <br /> that NCDOT could certainly look at installing signage throughout the EDD <br /> area to alert truck drivers about the low overpasses, and to install signage on <br /> the overpasses themselves to prevent possible collisions. <br />d. OPT (Bret Martin, Pearl Waite and Craig Benedict) <br />i. OPT and OCBRIP Implementation <br />Orange County Planning Staff has been studying specifics for the <br />implementation of a cross-county bus route from Mebane-Efland- <br />Hillsborough-Durham. Orange County staff, in partnership with Triangle <br />Transit, is also currently developing a five-year bus service expansion <br />program for Orange Public Transportation (OPT) that will interact with existing <br />OPT services and the planned Triangle Transit cross-county service. The bus <br />service expansion program will be reviewed/considered by the BOCC in <br />January. As an extension of this, Orange County is looking for NCDOT <br />assistance routing traffic on/off US 70 Bypass for a possible park-and-ride lot <br />at the Maxway shopping center in Hillsborough or other potential sites further <br />west along US 70 as well as potential improvements that can made in the US <br />70 or NC 86 rights-of-way to accommodate these plans. <br />ii. Park-and-ride update and bus transit hub (Bret Martin and Craig Benedict) <br />Triangle Transit, in partnership with Orange County planning staff, has been <br />evaluating options for park-and-ride locations in Mebane, Efland, and <br />Hillsborough for the cross-county bus route. Many potential park-and-ride <br />locations have been identified in Mebane near I-85 and along NC 119. An <br />additional potential site has been identified in downtown Mebane (Z-Bowl). A <br />potential opportunity to partner with the Piedmont Authority for Regional <br />Transportation (PART) has been identified to create a transit connection hub <br />34 <br />ReturntoAgenda