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©G/,~° G~ 6 Transitian area (Hickory Forest Raad) to Lafayette Drive, is identified in the Orange Caunty Bicycle Transportation Plan, and would extend bicycle accommodations requested in TIP Project R-2825 to Carrboro. The Town of Carrbora Transportation Advisory Gammittee has also established bicycle routes an Old NC 86 as a transpartation 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 far long bicycle mutes such as the ones Orange Caunty has requested. In the future, the prajects could be divided into shorter projects that provide connections between logical origins and destinations, as there has to be some rationale for each separate route,) E, R-2825 Improvements to South Churton Street: Develop congestian management, limited access, aesthetic and capacity improvements between US 70 Business and Interstate 40, The Draft 2006-2012 STIP does not include this project. Orange County requests that NCDOT fund this project. The portion between Interstates 40 and 85 will conform to the design criteria of the Economic Development District Design Manual (4-lane divided section with bike and pedestrian improvements), The feasibility study completed in February 2002 recommends a 4-lane divided, with 16-foot median, curb and gutter cross section for the entire corridor from I-40 to Eno River, Orange County stresses the need to study improvements within the current right-of-way far the segment north of Interstate 85. Improved capacity through widening is not the County's first choice because of significant constraints between Interstate 85 and US 70 Business and the proximity of the historic district north of the project limits, Orange County requests that, where conditions do not prevent the addition of frontage roads, the feasibility study include the addition of frontage roads with limited access from the corridor. Development of Waterstone, a 337-acre mixed use development, is underway off the east side of South Churtan Street in the Hillsborough Economic Development District north of I-40, Current (2003) Average Annual Daily Traffic counts on Churtan Street in this corridor vary from 11,000 just north of I-40 to 15,000 south of I-85 to 19,000 south of the Eno River. Traffic is expected to increase dramatically as Waterstone's 134 single-family houses, 128 town home/patio homes, 271 apartments, 450,000 square feet of retail space, 408,000 square feet of mixed use, 150,000 square feet of office space, a 20-acre community college site, and mare, are completed. Another approved development on S, Churton Street, Oakdale Village, will add over 122,000 square feet of retail and office development an the west side of Churton Street north of Oakdale Drive.