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Item 3.a DRAFT 5 108 109 Heidi Perry: Where is Mebane? DCHC MPO, TARPO? 110 111 Nish Trivedi: Mebane is part in Orange County and majority in BG MPO Alamance County. It is in BG MPO in Orange 112 County, and Orange County is also in BG MPO. 113 114 Jenn Sykes:They are mutually exclusive,color coded in the maps. 115 116 Nish Trivedi continued his presentation referring to Attachments on priorities for TARPO, BG/MPO, &DCHC/MPO. 117 118 Nish Trivedi: Matt correct me if I'm wrong, but if you submit a highway project using a NCDOT standard street cross 119 section that has bike lane, NCDOT will put in that bike lane as part of the highway modernization project. 120 121 Matt Day: DOT is in the process of updating their bike/ped policy. My expectation is that once that update is done, the 122 answer would be, yes. Right now, I can't tell you that the answer is,yes. 123 124 Nish Trivedi: Staff recommends carrying forward and updating the County Priorities used in 5.0. Instead of asking for a 125 paved shoulder we are asking for a highway project with a bike lane. We would use the NCDOT standards street cross 126 section that has bike lane and sidewalk. The sidewalk is included should NCDOT ever change their policy 127 128 Matt Day: If you're going to submit these as highway projects, the DOT thinks you are saying the primary purpose of the 129 project is to modernize the highway with the bicycle lanes as a secondary benefit. 130 131 Nish Trivedi: These are modernization where the focus is improving safety, bring roads to current standards as the 132 primary purpose and the bike lane, pedestrian facility, multimodal component is a secondary benefit. 133 134 Matt Day: If the primary purpose of the project is to provide bike lanes then submit it as a bike project. If the primary 135 purpose is to improve and modernize the road with the bike lanes as a secondary benefit, then submit as a highway 136 project. 137 138 Nish Trivedi: If the bike is primary then you're required to provide local match and local administration. The County has 139 never addressed local match or local administration. I do not believe we have time to address it prior to submission. I'm 140 recommending these as highway modernization projects with the bike lane as a secondary benefit. These are all 141 modernization projects with two exceptions: NC 86 and NC 54 which the staff is recommending as widening projects. The 142 NC-86 is identified because it is in the current adopted TARPO CTP. 143 144 Matt Day:Yes it is in the CTP but just because it is in the CTP does not mean you may want to submit it. 145 146 Nish Trivedi: Yes, the reason these projects are identified is because it is for the County Priorities for SPOT 6 and later for 147 SPOT 7, 8, etc. Staff is identifying a full list that we will bring to you every SPOT cycle rather than reinventing the wheel 148 each time. 149 150 Heidi Perry: In order to make it a highway project with a modernization of bike lanes, does it have to have a curb and 151 gutter? 152 153 Matt Day: No. If you look at the DOT standard cross-sections and desire a bike lane, you will see curb and gutter. 154 Anything that doesn't have a curb and gutter, DOT will typically do a 4-foot paved shoulder, not a full 5-foot. 155 156 Nish Trivedi: No, I used that NCDOT standard street cross section as it is the closest one that reflects the existing 60' 157 right-of-way with a bike lane. I can update the recommendation of having a four-foot paved shoulder instead of a curb and 158 gutter, but it will not be a bike lane. 159 160 Heidi Perry: What makes it a modernization? 161