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Approved 2.20.19 538 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 Old 86 that I don't want any more encroachment on my 551 property. 552 553 Amy Cole: You will have problem getting right-of-way along Old NC-86. 554 555 Nish Trivedi: I don't know how Carrboro feels about Old NC-86 improvements. 556 557 Tina Moon: I think this will make for a good corridor study for bike/ped connection between Hillsborough and Carrboro. 558 Carrboro is about to embark on a bike plan and this area may come up. 559 560 Nish Trivedi continued the presentation and directed the OUTBoard to Attachment 2 regarding DCHC and attachment 3, 561 BG MPO Project List. 562 563 Nish Trivedi: Now DCHC MPO. DCHC's SPOT process is tentatively using the adopted MTP. If it is not in the MTP it may 564 not get submitted. I have identified possible projects that my require updating the MTP in order for them to be submitted 565 into SPOT. Right now these are just potential projects identified in DCHC MPO area. Some of these projects are covered 566 in TARPO but cross into DCHC. Because they cross between MPO/RPO they may be easier to submit in one than the 567 other. They are simply presented in both because they cross jurisdiction boundaries. Nish Trivedi: I have added US-70 to 568 the list because it crosses both DCHC MPO and BG MPO connecting Mebane, Hillsborough, and Durham. It is a Strategic 569 Freight Corridor in DCHC MPO. There is increasing traffic and crashes along it. Lebanon Road is also added as a potential 570 project because it too crosses both MPOs. Mebane is against widening Lebanon Road but they support intersection 571 improvements along it due to serious crashes and increasing traffic. Nish Trivedi: As you can see in the table for US-70, 572 there are over 14,000 vehicles going east from Mebane through Hillsborough and into Durham, many of them avoiding the 573 I-85 traffic and trucks avoiding the weight station. There have also been over 1,100 accidents over the past ten years and 574 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 575 the detour when NCDOT later widens 1-85. 576 577 Heidi Perry: One of the reasons for not approving the widening of US 70 was to find better ways to keep the trucks on the 578 interstate. The trucks are exiting onto 70 to avoid a weigh station. Adding capacity to 70 would exasperate that problem, 579 would allow trucks to bypass an important safety measure that we have in place for the public good. Another expressed by 580 a majority of the OUTBoard, was the understanding that adding lanes to roads brings more cars and Vehicle Miles 581 Traveled (VMTs), not fewer,and that the state's focus should be on finding ways to decrease VMTs. 582 583 MOTION by Heidi Perry to not recommend US-70 as possible project, seconded by Eric Broo. 584 VOTE: 8-1. Opposed by Jenn Sykes. 585 586 Nish Trivedi: Each jurisdiction in the BGMPO is allowed to submit 10 projects, and I don't want us to lose our chance of 587 getting a project in, so I'm asking for all five to be considered as potential projects. 588 589 Art Menius: Any opposition to moving forward with all five? 590 591 Abigaile Pittman: Didn't the U.S. 70 map get removed? 11