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Item 3.a DRAFT 9 323 Nish Trivedi: As Matt said, it's better to segment these sections out. Right now, I'm listing it as the entire corridor as a 324 County concern/priority. Staff recommends using traffic count and crashes as the criteria for separating those segments. 325 It's listed as the entire corridor because we are recommending the entire corridor be a priority for the County for now and 326 future SPOT cycles. By breaking the corroder down into segments, each segment has a better chance of receiving a 327 higher score. 328 329 Matt Day: The reason for segmentation is to cut down the cost to improve its score. 330 331 Nish Trivedi: I will keep the board updated as to what segment will be. Prior to MPO/RPO submitting it to NCDOT, they 332 will go through a 30-day public review period before their policy boards adopts the final project submission list. 333 334 Eric Broo: Does the DOT look at pedestrians and bicyclists when it comes to accidents? 335 336 Nish Trivedi: Yes. Safety was a criteria in SPOT 5.0 and it was based on 20% crash density, 20% crash severity, 20% 337 critical crash rate, and 40% safety benefits. In SPOT 5, it accounted for 10% of the total score in Statewide, Region, and 338 Division. This criteria is expected to be carried forward with SPOT 6.0 339 340 Eric Broo: That includes vehicle and bicycle interactions? 341 342 Nish Trivedi: NCDOT keeps record of all reported crashes, the crash data includes whether it involved pedestrian, cyclist, 343 or animal, as well as hitting a pole, object or rear ending someone. 344 345 Nish Trivedi: Your current recommendation is to remove curb and gutter, have 11-foot travel lanes, and a four-foot paved 346 shoulder increased to five,and I will find the standard cross section NCDOT uses. Should I remove sidewalks as well? 347 348 Heidi Perry: I think so. 349 350 Eric Broo: If there is a school or community center in the future where there should be a sidewalk, I think it would be 351 reasonable to include that portion as a sidewalk. 352 353 Nish Trivedi: Before we complete with TARPO, I want to mention the two projects that were mentioned for widening. As 354 Matt mentioned earlier, NC-86 is part of the adopted Comprehensive Transportation Plan (CTP). I haven't been given 355 direction on whether we're updating the CTP or not. The CTP calls for NC-54 and NC 86 to be widened. 356 357 Matt Day: To provide a little background, NCDOT used to have a policy that was considered NC-86 as a strategic highway 358 corridor. Under the policy, NCDOT required that all plans had to show NC 86 as a four-lane expressway from Hillsborough 359 up to Virginia. That policy was removed a few years ago and we no longer have to show it as a four-lane express way. It 360 was never justified based on the volume of traffic. Recently, when the MPO did their CTP, it did not show a widening of 361 their section of it, so the RPO portion picks somewhere probably a couple miles north of Hillsborough. 362 363 Heidi Perry: We should look at what the population growth is for that part of the county. 364 365 Matt Day: If there's some question about whether that project is necessary, you have on opportunity to request that DOT 366 do an update to the plan to decide if that project is something that is based on updated forecasts, is necessary from the 367 traffic prospective, or something that can be removed from the plan. 368 369 Nish Trivedi: What do I need to do to request that from NCDOT? 370 371 Matt Day: Have the Board of Commissioners make a request to the RPO and then the RPO can make a request to DOT. 372 1 think Nish was also going to talk about the widening of 54. The current CTP shows widening only being necessary out to 373 Orange Grove Road, but a recent corridor study suggested it needed to be widened all the way to Graham so that's 374 another thing you would want to go back and revisit in the plan. 375