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Approved 5/19/10 1 MINUTES 1 ORANGE UNIFIED TRANSPORTATION BOARD REGULAR MEETING 2 APRIL 21, 2010 3 4 5 MEMBERS PRESENT: Sam Lasris, Cedar Grove Township; Nancy Cole Baker, Pedestrian Access Safety Advocate; 6 Alice Gordon, Board of County Commissioners liaison; Leo Allison, Cheeks Township; Julian (Randy) Marshall, 7 Bingham Township; Bryn Smith, CFE Representative; Paul Guthrie, Chapel Hill Township; Amy Cole, Transit 8 Advocate; 9 10 11 MEMBERS ABSENT: Jeff Charles, Bicycle Advocate; Mary Bobbitt-Cooke, Planning Board Liaison; Al Terry, 12 Transportation Services Board Representative; Eric Tillman, Hillsborough Township Representative; Little River 13 Township-Vacant; Economic Development Commission-Vacant; Eno Township Representative-Vacant; 14 15 16 STAFF PRESENT: Karen Lincoln, Transportation Planner; Tina Love, Administrative Assistant II 17 18 19 I. Call to order 20 21 22 II. Consideration of additions to the agenda 23 24 25 III. Approval of Minutes 26 27 The OUTBoard approved the minutes from February 17, 2010 by affirmation. 28 29 30 IV. Orange County Comprehensive Transportation Plan (CTP) 31 32 Karen Lincoln updated the Board on the Comprehensive Transportation Plan (CTP) Steering Committee meeting 33 held in March. The group went over information staff had requested from NCDOT to answer all the questions posed 34 by the Commissioners and supply them with sufficient information to make them comfortable with continuing 35 development of the Plan, even though NC 86 will have to be shown as a future four lane divided highway. Part of the 36 Commissioners’ decision, with no explicit approval, to pursue development of the CTP was to include an interim 37 development plan in the technical report that would talk about when certain improvements would be anticipated as far 38 as need. She noted that the group asked for the traffic projections on NC 86 in 5- or 10-year intervals to see how the 39 traffic is projected to grow and to note years the traffic will be over capacity of the road, along with appropriate cross 40 sections that would handle the amount of projected traffic at those intervals. Karen reviewed the handout of the NC 41 86 projections prepared by NCDOT showing the trend of traffic growth using the historic data, as straight line 42 projection into the future. She reviewed levels of service and the Triangle regional model traffic projections for NC 43 86, using a level of service D for the volume to capacity ratios. She noted that the Triangle Regional Model uses 44 level of service E for volume to capacity rations. Level of service E is just before gridlock occurs on a highway. 45 Current traffic counts indicate NC 86 is already over capacity from US 70 Bypass to NC 57 and from NC 57 to 46 Coleman Loop Road North, it is near capacity and there is no traffic problem from there up to Caswell County. She 47 noted that each area may require something different. Karen advised that NCDOT’s division office rejected doing an 48 interim phased plan. Karen noted that Paul Black from the Triangle Area Rural Planning Organization (TARPO) is 49 running into the same problems with other counties’ CTPs. She noted that he has done preliminary work to request a 50 modification to the Strategic Highway Corridors Vision Plan to change the facility type for NC 86 to a boulevard cross 51 section. Karen advised the Steering Committee to go back to the Commissioners and let them know that if they want 52 to go forward there won’t be a phased plan. Karen noted that if a request is made for a modification to change NC 86 53 to a boulevard, it will delay the plan by approximately 6 months to get a decision from the Board of Transportation. 54 NCDOT does now have a new policy of transparency and they have changed a lot of things and are trying to work 55