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Approved 11/28/18 5 Erik Broo: If the plan shows the path and it is being shown to the public and the conversation in this room is that it is 224 probably not going to happen, should the public be shown that without the context that we know. 225 226 Nish Trivedi: NCDOT is working on changing their bike/ped policies there is a big effort to change that rule. This is a 227 statewide issue and they’re changing it and it includes updating a complete street policy. There is an effort to push or 228 more bike/ped consideration in highways. Carrboro is very skeptical about the widening; they feel that intersections 229 improvement will address all the issues. There is an understanding that this is a 20-30 year long process because of 230 the phasing. 231 232 Erik Broo: So on the Orange County side most of the parcels of land are rural, and rural buffer. There is only a 233 handful of commercial properties and future land use doesn’t indicate that have changed to commercial. How does it 234 look on the Alamance side? 235 236 Nish Trivedi: Alamance County doesn’t have zoning. 237 238 Erik Broo: So is there an expectation that there be greater development on the Alamance County side than the 239 Orange County side? 240 241 Nish Trivedi: That’s a good question. 242 243 Erik Broo: So even if the public comments include that there isn’t going to see much development on the Orange 244 County side, we’re still going to see potentially a lot of development on the Alamance County side. 245 246 Nish Trivedi: And that development increases traffic. 247 248 Erik Broo: It’s like when Chapel Hill didn’t want Walmart so they just went across the line into Chatham County but 249 Orange County still has to manage all the traffic. 250 251 Nish Trivedi: Transit would help address some of the traffic that is why there needs to be better coordination 252 between PART and Chapel Hill Transit along this corridor. The plan doesn’t address it and that is one of the 253 comments that Carrboro is submitting and we will submit the same. There needs to be better coordination among 254 the transit agencies along this corridor. 255 256 Art Menius: We keep attacking this from the wrong end. Reducing use instead of increasing capacity. 257 258 David Laudicina: My concern is that we’re planning for all this road and more cars and it is going to be done by 2040. 259 Did that plan just come out that we are going to have a worldwide catastrophe with climate change in 2040 if we don’t 260 start doing something. A little thing like Bus Rapid Transit on this road would do something to reduce the usage. 261 262 Art Menius: I agree we don’t need wider roads, we need more transit along those corridors. 263 264 Heidi Perov: Unless the goal of NCDOT is to get more cars on the road, this is not the answer. I totally agree with 265 David, I think that global warming is right here right now whether anyone believes it or not. Pavement is increasing 266 that. I think the intersection improvements should be done but not the widening. Is it because people can’t get 267 where the want to go as fast as they want or is it a safety issue causing more crashes. I would like to see the crash 268 report and if that is the case then we have to improve the intersections where the crashes are occurring but we don’t 269 just pave over the entire western part of that area. I also think that technology is going to be changing a lot of the 270 congestion that we’re seeing with signalization being able to be synched in a way it puts people through in a more 271 efficient and safer way. 272 273 Erik Broo: With a lot of the road, if you want to pass someone there are certain sections that the elevation is too 274 great and there is no line of sight. If we are looking to increase driver safety and pedestrian and bicycle safety, are 275 there other ways of going about grading or making line of sight better or creating passing zones. 276 277 Brantley Wells: If you are talking about changing grade you might as well triple those costs. 278 279