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14 <br />ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT TRANSPORTATION WORKGROUP <br />RECOMMENDATIONS <br />Notes from Transpodatlon Work Group retreat <br />Hillsborough House Inn <br />August 18, 2001 <br />Recommendations from the group <br />Comments to NCDOT reaardina Elizabeth Brady Road <br />(note, the group did not re -vote after additional alternatives were offered): <br />The seven options being studied in prionty order by what is preferred by the work group: <br />1. Elizabeth Brady alignment 3, which does not cross the river, goes across rings (IF this Is the <br />least impact to the river) <br />2. Elizabeth Brady alignment 2 (averts racetrack, crosses river) <br />3. ( 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 Chunon St. from 70 business to 70 bypass <br />Additional comments: <br />➢ Expand the DOT study area to the entire 50 -year water and sewer boundary from the town plan <br />➢ Have DOT continue with Its existing list of options <br />Y Add the consultants current study area boundary as a 8" alternative, adjusted as needed and <br />using existing roads where possible <br />Y Design the Elizabeth Brady road extension to minimize the impact on the Eno River, even if it <br />reduces mobility <br />Y Treat Elizabeth Brady Rtl, as a local road, not a bypass <br />Y Treat Lawrence Rd. option as having a different function from Elizabeth Brady, to move through <br />traffic around, not through, downtown <br />Y Develop a new interchange of 1 -85 east of Lawrence Rd. to create possible bypass alternative <br />➢ Da other non -road fixes on Church Street to address congestion & safety, we <br />Other All include bike and Pedestrian feature <br />Amend cumma plena: <br />I . Amend Western Bypass to begin near US 70 connectorfrom 1 -85 and delete King Edward <br />Road extension from plan. <br />Extend existing made: <br />2. Extend Lawrence Rd. south and west to connect with NC86 at the Old /New 86 connector <br />3. Extend Painters Grove Church Road south to new interchange on 185 and continue south to <br />conned with New Hope Church Rd. <br />4. Extend NC 85 west at Crunch Street to con parallel whh railroad and connect to Eno Street at <br />Nash Street <br />5. Extend Orange Grove Road east to US 70 business <br />6. Extend JJ Freeland Memorial Drive east to Valley Forge Road <br />7. Realign and extend Old NC 10 to connect the access mad through Hampton Pointe & cress <br />railroad to provide access to Beckett 'a Ridge and through W Oakdale Drive <br />