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6 <br /> 162 Nish Trivedi: Modernization projects are what NCDOT uses to bring the roads to current"modern"standards. <br /> 163 <br /> 164 Matt Day: It's generally projects to make the existing travel lanes to current safe standards, or to straighten out some <br /> 165 curves and to add shoulders if necessary. <br /> 166 <br /> 167 Heidi Perry: What I did like was the 11-foot travel lane.Would 11-foot travel lanes be allowed? <br /> 168 <br /> 169 Nish Trivedi: Yes. The majority of the cross section are 11-foot travel lane. <br /> 170 <br /> 171 Heidi Perry: Where do separated multi-use paths stand? <br /> 172 <br /> 173 Nish Trivedi: I can cover that at the very end of this presentation. Multi-use paths or shared use paths or side paths are all <br /> 174 considered independent bike/ped projects and funded through federal STBGDA. State funds cannot be used for them. <br /> 175 <br /> 176 Heidi Perry. Does that count as part of a modernization? <br /> 177 <br /> 178 Nish Trivedi and Matt Day: No. <br /> 179 <br /> 180 Matt Day: There is a project in TARPO that has a multi-use path as part of a highway project but such projects falls under <br /> 181 the NCDOT Cost Share Policy which local jurisdictions have to pay. <br /> 182 <br /> 183 Heidi Perry: Is this the 20% local match? <br /> 184 <br /> 185 Nish Trivedi: No, cost share policy is based on the local jurisdiction population. Larger populated local jurisdictions pay <br /> 186 more for such projects. Durham County pays 50% <br /> 187 <br /> 188 Eric Broo:What about sidewalks? <br /> 189 <br /> 190 Nish Trivedi:This applies to sidewalks and I will show how this policy works at end of presentation. <br /> 191 <br /> 192 Randy Marshall: Looking at Old Greensboro, we can modernize but not include the curb and gutter and sidewalk; is that <br /> 193 right? I thought DOT didn't do sidewalks. <br /> 194 <br /> 195 Nish Trivedi: Yes, They administer and build sidewalks, through their pedestrian policy that requires local jurisdiction to <br /> 196 pay a percentage of the cost. They do not maintain them. <br /> 197 <br /> 198 Randy Marshall. Why would you put curb, gutters, and sidewalks on Old Greensboro Highway when nobody is there to <br /> 199 maintain them? Why not just put the improvements of 11-foot travel lanes and 4-foot paved shoulders. Put something in <br /> 200 there that's likely to score higher and be more cost effective. <br /> 201 <br /> 202 Heidi Perry:These projects were in there last year. <br /> 203 <br /> 204 Nish Trivedi: Yes, these were in there as paved shoulder projects. The paved shoulder projects were not carried forward <br /> 205 at the MPO. Paved shoulder projects were not submitted by MPO to NCDOT because they could not be carried forward. <br /> 206 Old Greensboro road was carried forward as a modernization project, not just paved shoulder. <br /> 207 <br /> 208 Heidi Perry: It wasn't submitted last time, and I'm not sure why? <br /> 209 <br /> 210 Nish Trivedi: We did submit it and it is part of SPOT 5.0. It was given a regional and divisional score but it was too low to <br /> 211 give it points. Neither OUTBoard nor BOCC recommended it as a priority when it came to local input points so it did not get <br /> 212 any points. <br /> 213 <br /> 214 Matt Day: It was submitted and scored, but it didn't score high enough for us to put points on. <br /> 215 <br />