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13 538 Nish Trivedi: Surveys do not go into SPOT scoring. 539 540 Matt Day: In more rural areas, it's harder to get rural bike/ped projects. You're better off scoring it as a highway project 541 because the criteria used for bike/ped projects are based on your proximity to points of interest and density of population, 542 things working against rural projects. 543 544 Nish Trivedi: Bike/Ped scoring variables are destinations, densities, connectivity,cost effectiveness and safety. 545 546 MOTION by Heidi Perry that the Old NC-86 improvement be submitted as a road modernization project with a separated 547 side-path, seconded by Ed Vaughn. 548 VOTE: 8-1. Opposed, David Laudicina. 549 550 David Laudicina: I live close along there and close enough to 86 that I don't want any more encroachment on my property. 551 552 Amy Cole:You will have problem getting right-of-way along Old NC-86. 553 554 Nish Trivedi: I don't know how Carrboro feels about Old NC-86 improvements. 555 556 Tina Moon: I think this will make for a good corridor study for bike/ped connection between Hillsborough and Carrboro. 557 Carrboro is about to embark on a bike plan and this area may come up. 558 559 Nish Trivedi continued the presentation and directed the OUTBoard to Attachment 2 regarding DCHC and attachment 3, 560 BG MPO Project List. 561 562 Nish Trivedi: Now DCHC MPO. DCHC's SPOT process is tentatively using the adopted MTP. If it is not in the MTP it may 563 not get submitted. I have identified possible projects that my require updating the MTP in order for them to be submitted 564 into SPOT. Right now these are just potential projects identified in DCHC MPO area. Some of these projects are covered 565 in TARPO but cross into DCHC. Because they cross between MPO/RPO they may be easier to submit in one than the 566 other. They are simply presented in both because they cross jurisdiction boundaries. Nish Trivedi: I have added US-70 to 567 the list because it crosses both DCHC MPO and BG MPO connecting Mebane, Hillsborough, and Durham. It is a Strategic 568 Freight Corridor in DCHC MPO. There is increasing traffic and crashes along it. Lebanon Road is also added as a potential 569 project because it too crosses both MPOs. Mebane is against widening Lebanon Road but they support intersection 570 improvements along it due to serious crashes and increasing traffic. Nish Trivedi: As you can see in the table for US-70, 571 there are over 14,000 vehicles going east from Mebane through Hillsborough and into Durham, many of them avoiding the 572 1-85 traffic and trucks avoiding the weight station. There have also been over 1,100 accidents over the past ten years and 573 10 of them being fatal, that's over 100/year and 1 fatality per year while traffic along it continues increasing. US-70 will be 574 the detour when NCDOT later widens 1-85. 575 576 Heidi Perry: One of the reasons was to find better ways to keep the trucks on the interstate. The trucks are exiting onto 70 577 to avoid a weigh station. Adding capacity to 70 would exasperate that problem, would allow trucks to bypass an important 578 safety measure that we have in place for the public good. Another expressed by a majority of the OUTBoard, was the 579 understanding that adding lanes to roads brings more cars and Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMTs), not fewer, and that the 580 state's focus should be on finding ways to decrease VMTs. 581 582 MOTION by Heidi Perry not recommend US-70 as possible project, seconded by Eric Broo. 583 VOTE: 8-1. Opposed by Jenn Sykes. 584 585 Nish Trivedi: Each jurisdiction in the BGMPO is allowed to submit 10 projects, and I don't want us to lose our chance of 586 getting a project in, so I'm asking for all five to be considered as potential projects. 587 588 Art Menius: Any opposition to moving forward with all five? 589 590 Abigaile Pittman: Didn't the U.S. 70 map get removed? 591