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-6' <br />4' Bike <br />Travel lanes. <br />16' 1 12' <br />proposed lion -lane cross srcfran far' <br />OklM.C. Hryhway 86. <br />`Amended 1 -17 -95 <br />�• �: <br />1- 4o/Old N,C,Highway 8s District :* Other than 1 -40, only <br />one road has been included on the Orange County and <br />HiUsborough Thoroughfare Plans - Old N.C.Highway 86, <br />Classified as an arterial street, Old N.C,HighWay 86 is <br />currently capable of handing 1 o,000 vehicles per day and had <br />an average daily traffic volume of 8,300 vehicles per day in <br />19s6. By the year 2oo5, traffic on the road is expected to <br />reach 19,600 vehicles per day. <br />With traffic volumes expected to exceed the capacity of the <br />road, the Hillsborough Thoroughfare Plan calls for the widening <br />of Old N,C.Highway S6. The proposed cross section for <br />widening is a four -lane facTty, with sidewalks and two travel <br />lanes in either direction, plus a center turn lane. To accomplish <br />the widening, the right- of-way would also have to be <br />expanded from 60 feet to 90 feet. <br />100' ROW <br />Travel lanes <br />12' 1 16' <br />42—s' Landscape Median <br />Sidewalk <br />e lane <br />Rather than utilize the five -lane facility proposed in the <br />Hillsborough Thoroughfare Plan, a different cross section is <br />desired. To provide an attractive entranceway into <br />Hillsborough and to prevent the strip commercial /cross- traffic <br />turning movements associated with Churton Street, the cross <br />section would be changed to provide a landscape median <br />instead of a center turn lane. Turn lanes would only be available <br />at designated access points. These points were identified on <br />the schematic plans presented in section 2.1, Development <br />Areas, <br />In addition to the landscape median, the outside lane would be <br />widened from 12 feet to 16 feet to accommodate bike lanes <br />Economic DevekAWntDistncts Design Manual <br />pwe 3.3, to <br />