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D R A F T 4 going to have to do some work to the piers underneath that bridge in order to accommodate the additional lane. The 160 topic did come up at last night’s commissioners meeting during comments. It was mentioned that there were monies for 161 this consultant study, and it was considered to be at the forefront with a request that there be coordination with Orange162 County Schools. Now, on the other side of the bridge, there is a need for some walkability in between the schools. You 163 are aware that we have submitted projects previously for SPOT scoring through the STIP, as recommended by DOT 164 staff. As we have done before when we are pretty confident that we would not have a fundable project and it would not 165 score well and certainly didn’t in SPOT 3.0. We took sort of a gap year there and did not submit that project in SPOT166 4.0, but it certainly does remain on the County’s priority list.167 168 Nish Trivedi: Just to give you an update on that, it is one of six projects that is submitted in TARPO for modernizing. 169 Not just modernizing, bringing it up to current standards and adding more paved shoulder and providing a safe benefit 170 for the shoulder. I’ll give more detail of their preliminary scores next year. That is on Orange Grove Road from 85 to 171 Dodsons Crossroads.172 173 Amy Cole: I have some short-term solutions until potentially a new bridge can be built. I would really like to see at least 174 a temporary light to see whether or not this would actually slow down traffic and reduce the potentials for accidents. So,175 at Oakdale and Orange Grove Road a temporary traffic light to see how this would slow down traffic and also reducing 176 the speed limit to 25 miles per hour during school time hours.There’s only one lane of traffic that’s able to actually 177 crossover the bridge at a time so it kind of cuts it back-and-forth. I would like to see some type of traffic calming 178 measures that occur there, and I think these are realistic temporary solutions that we can actually test out. I think this 179 is something that could potentially be a solution. 180 181 Tom Altieri: Particularly, if they could be time-limited so it coincides with the beginning and end of school.182 183 Amy Cole: I’d rather see a Greenway down Old NC 86 than a sidewalk that takes a lot more maintenance to maintain. 184 The greenways are more attractive and there’s more flexibility on where they can go.185 186 Tom Altieri: Greenways would go on currently private property, so you would have to obtain easements.187 188 Amy Cole: Two years ago, when I went through and knocked on all people stores on Orange Grove Road and said how 189 do you feel about a sidewalk being built they were all supportive of it. I don’t think that it should be nixed, I think it 190 should be pursued.191 192 Randy Marshall: Can we get a comment from the Sheriff about his reading on that intersection, and why he doesn’t 193 have officers servicing that intersection when there are other officers at other schools? 194 195 Tom Altieri: There are officers that are on do Grady Brown School Road between those two schools, but I have not 196 seen them on Orange Grove Road.197 198 Tom Altieri: It’s to get the cars in and out of the schools and for pedestrians and crossing guards. I’ll bring that up.199 200 Todd Jones: I think DOT needs to start taking pedestrians as seriously as automobiles.201 202 Heidi Perry: They need to start walking with kids.203 204 Amy Cole: Abigail had mentioned many times that the DOT was doing a safety check on that area, we have not 205 received that report.206 207 Tom Altieri: We are hoping to get that information soon.208 209 Todd Jones: I’m a little confused that the Town of Hillsborough says they are not legally allowed to maintain any facility 210 outside their boundaries. I know they’ve got Kings Highway Park that’s outside the town limits, and they appear to 211 maintain that however minimally.212