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15 [NOTE: the Draft 2004-2010 STIP programmed this project for right-of-way acquisition in 2003 and construction in 2005. Chapel Hill requested that NCDOT postpone the project and transfer funding to the new transit maintenance facility. At the time NGDOT was developing the Draft 2004-2010 STIP, planning and design for this project were in progress.] There are three schools in the vicinity of Homestead Road: Chapel Hill High School, Smith Middle School and Seawell Elemeritary School. Many students live within walking distance and cycling distance to Chapel Hill High School and must walk or cycle along Homestead Road, and cross the road daily. Provision of sidewalks is of utmost importance for the safety of students and other pedestrians who use this corridor, Provision of bicycle facilities is, likewise, necessary far the safety of students and others. C. NC 86 Bicycle Lanes: Construct bicycle lanes (4-foot paved shoulders) from Chapel Hill (Whitfield Road) to Hillsborough (US 70 Business), The Draft 2006- 2012 STIP does not include this project, This project will extend bicycle lanes on Airport Road (NC86) in Chapel Hill to US 70 Business in Hillsborough. Bicycle lanes have been completed along NC 86 from UNC to Whitfield Road (SR 1731) in Orange County, NC 86 from Chapel Hill to Hillsborough is experiencing increasing numbers of bicyclists using this route, Also, there are two schools along this route (A,L. Stanback Middle School and New Hope Elementary School). This route is listed as priority I of the primary bicycle routes proposed in the Orange County Bicycle Transportation Plan adopted April 6, 1999, This project is listed in the 2002-2008 TIP, as an incidental bicycle need. Orange County requests that bicycle lanes be constructed as an independent project, and, if necessary, programmed in phases. D. Old NC 86 (SR 1009) Bicycle Lanes: Construct bicycle lanes (4-foot paved shoulders) from Carrboro (Eubanks Road) to Hillsborough (I-40). The Draft 2006-2012 STIP does not include this project, This route, from the Carrboro Transition area (Hickory Forest Road) to Lafayette Drive, is identified in the Orange County Bicycle Transportation Plan, and would extend bicycle accommodations requested in TIP Project R-2825 to Carrboro. The Town of Carrboro Transportation Advisory Committee has also established bicycle routes on Old NC 86 as a transportation priority connection between proposed bicycle facilities along Old Fayetteville Road, Homestead Road and Eubanks Road. [NOTE REGARDING BICYCLE FACILITY REQUESTS: A NCDOT representative has indicated that funding available for Bike and Ped TIP projects, as independent projects, is not sufficient to provide 4-ft. paved shoulders for long bicycle routes such as the ones Orange County has requested, In the future, the projects could be divided into shorter projects that provide connections between logical origins and destinations, as there has to be same rationale for each separate route.]