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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 />between PART and Triangle Transit in Mebane. The sites narrowed for <br />evaluation in Efland and Hillsborough are the Efland-Cheeks Community <br />Center, Maxway Shopping Center, two greenfield sites west of the Maxway <br />Shopping Center on US 70, and the Walmart/Home Depot shopping area <br />near I-85 in Hillsborough. Service recommendations and park-and-ride <br />locations and their necessary physical improvements will be worked out in the <br />five-year bus service expansion program. <br />iii. Funding: Eligibility for Section 5311 for operating expenses associated with <br /> any fixed routes outside the Durham or Burlington Urbanized Areas (UZAs) <br /> and Section 5307 for capital and/or operating expenses for any fixed route <br /> services within the UZAs. (Bret Martin) <br />This part of the agenda was not discussed during the luncheon. Orange <br />County planning staff had a call scheduled with NCDOT Public Transportation <br />Division staff on October 31st to discuss this item. <br />III. PENDING PROJECTS <br />a. TIP project updates (Chuck Edwards, NCDOT District 7 Engineer) <br />Mike Mills provided a brief update regarding on-going and pending TIP projects <br />in Orange County. He stated that a mill-and-fill project at the I-85/40 split is <br />starting in the Spring of 2014; a guard rail for a bridge on 751 got funded; the <br />Columbus Street projects are ahead of schedule and are 50% complete; the <br />Smith Level Road project is on schedule and should be complete by May 2015; <br />the Old NC 86 project north of Hillsborough from NC 57 to the County line is a <br />little behind schedule; and there is bicycle funding for two-foot paved shoulders <br />on NC 86 from Whitfield to US 70 Business and this project should be starting in <br />the summer of 2014. <br />35 <br />ReturntoAgenda