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business district and to improve safety along Churton Street and NC 86. The <br />workgroup priontized the seven options In order of preference: <br />1. Elizabeth Brady alignment 3, Mich does not cross the river, goes across <br />ridge (IF this is the least impact to the river) <br />2. Elizabeth Brady alignment 2( averts racetrack, crosses river) <br />1 ( original) Elizabeth Brady alignment) <br />4. Lawrence Road (with 86 connector) — but different function from above <br />5. Western bypass <br />6. No build <br />7. Widen Chudon SL from 70 business to TO bypass <br />Elizabeth Brady Road Extension should be heated as a local toed, not a <br />bypass. The location of Elizabeth Brady Road is not adequate for a bypass. <br />NCDOT should extend the study area for a bypass to include the Hillsborough <br />50 -Year Water and Sewer Boundary. One option for a bypass would follow <br />the study area boundary for project U -3808, using existing marls where <br />possible and with an interchange on 1 -85 sae[ of Lawrence Road, Also, <br />please refer to the attached EDD Transportation Workgroup <br />recommendations and comments. <br />2) 1 -3308 Section A w deputo of 1-40 to six lanes from 1-85 in Orange Counlv to <br />NC 147 fBuck Dean Freeway) in Durham N — Orange County requests <br />that 14306 Section A and 1 -3308 Section R be divided Into two separate <br />projects and programmed separately in toe TIP. <br />Pmject planning and design for this facility is in progress. Orange County <br />requests that the development of the Major Investment Study and <br />Environmental Impact Statement for this project incude assurance that the <br />project will not have detrimental land use impacts to the Orange County <br />Comprehensive Plan Orange County is opposed to any widening of 140 <br />through Orange County unless there is a commitment by NCDOT to provide <br />HOV and/or dedicated bus lanes. <br />COMMENTS ON OTHER TIP PROJECTS INITIATED BY NCDOT <br />1) 1305 widening of 1.85 to six lanes Gas sigitogniction fin rah 1pefin I- <br />49 at Hillabormuch to Ducharn County Li : Orange County is opposed ro any <br />widening of -85 through Orange County unless there is a commitment by <br />NCDOT to provide HOV and /or dedicated bus lanes. <br />Even though this project remains an "UNFUNDED PROJ=, Orange <br />County requests drat its staff be allowed to participate in the planning of the <br />facility. The County is specifically interested! in fire following infrastructure <br />improvements as they relate to the I -85/US 70 Economic Development <br />District <br />