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_ Current County priority as highway project Attachment 2: Draft Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro (DCHC) MPO Project List New Project MPO/ AADT 2010 - Crashes 2006- 2018 Results Recommendations # RPO Project Description/Need 2016 2016 (SPOT 5.0) Staff OUTBoard Description: Widen US-70 and improve intersections from Buckhorn Road (SR-1114)to Durham County with NCDOT standard street cross-section 4G (110' row, 17.5' median, 11'travel lanes, 5' bike lane, c&g, and sidewalk), add turn lanes and safety improvements at NC-86, St. Mary's Road (SR-1002), Efland Cedar Grove Road (SR-1004), Frazier Road (SR- West 6400 -6200 Total 1148 1310), Richmond Road (SR-1312), Brookhollow Road (SR-1324), Faucette Mill Road (SR-1328), Miller Road (SR-1555), 10 fatal Lawrence Road (SR-1561), Palmers Grove Church Road (SR-1562), Pleasant Green Road (SR-1567), Orange High School 12 serious injury DCHC US-70 Road (SR-1588), and N Scotswood Boulevard (SR-2300). 100 minor injury N/A New Project Not /BG Improvements Recommended 220 possible injury Need: This is a major east-west corridor linking Mebane, Hillsborough and Durham through Orange County. Traffic continues 706 property increasing with more commuters traveling from Mebane and Hillsborough into Durham. Many use this corridor to avoid 1-85. It East 12000 - damage is also designated at a Strategic Freight Corridor in the DCHC MPO adopted Freight Plan. 14000 Description: Reconstruct interchange at 1-85 and NC 86 I-85/NC 86 Funded Need: This project would relieve existing and/or future expected congestion on the under-capacity existing interchange to 2 DCHC Interchange N/A Statewide Funded Funded accommodate future capacity improvements to I-85 and increase operational efficiency at the on-ramp/off-ramp intersections Improvements with NC 86. The new interchange would also be an opportunity to provide pedestrian and biking facilities across 1-85; these TIP 1-5984 facilities do not currently exist along the corridor. Description: Widen NC 86 from U.S. 70 Bypass to north of NC 57 to four(4) lanes with intersection improvements at U.S. 70 Bypass and NC 57 Total 114 NC 86 Need: The segment of NC 86 between NC 57 and U.S. 70 is highly congested. Traffic counts indicate that this segment of NC 1 serious injury County Priority Improvements 86 is over capacity for average annual daily counts. Capacity improvements would ease congestion and improve travel time 5 minor injury Remain County DCHC North of alongthis primary north-south corridor connecting the Town of Hillsborough to NC 57 and northern Orange Count 17,000 - 18,000 26 possible injury 51.02 Regional County priority priority P Y 9 g 9 Y p J Y 9� p Y Hillsborough Additionally, this area is identified in the Orange County Safe Routes to School Plan and the Town of Hillsborough 82 property 27.42 Division Connectivity Plan as an area in need of improvements for pedestrians, particularly for school age residents of the Fairview damage neighborhood that walk to Orange High School and Stanford Middle School. The Town of Hillsborough Connectivity Plan also calls for bike lanes in this area as well. Eno Mountain Description: Realign the intersection of Eno Mountain Road (SR 1148) and Mayo Street (SR 1192)with Orange Grove Road Total 38 Eno 3800 -4500 4 minor in jury Count Priorit Road/Mayo Street (SR 1006) and make safety improvements. J Y y y Remain County DCHC 4 possible injury County priority at Orange Grove Need: The project would improve safety, reduce travel time, and improve traffic flow between residential and commercial May 5300 - 30 property 14.36 Division priority Rd. areas in the Town of Hillsborough. 5200 damage Description: Modify the 1-85/1-40 Connector(SR 1239) interchange at U.S. 70 to provide access from all directions. Total 54 Need: The project would enable traffic from northwestern Orange County to access 1-85 more easily without risking the many 1 fatal County Priority U.S. 70 East/1-85/1- 5 minor injury Remain County DCHC points of traffic conflict through Efland. Traffic has increased on Efland-Cedar Grove Road as an alternative to NC 86. Much 4100 -4900 County priority 40 Connector 4 possible injury 18.43 Regional priority of that traffic currently"dog-legs"through Efland via Forrest Avenue to Mt. Willing Road to access 1-85/1-40. Traffic counts 44 property 13.03 Division reveal that traffic has increased approximately 40% over the past 10 years on Mt. Willing Road just south of Forrest Avenue, damage while traffic on U.S. 70 east of Efland-Cedar Grove Road has increased only 2/o. The project would dramatically improve travel time for traffic from northwestern Orange County to 1-85/1-40 and would dramatically ease congestion during peak periods in Efland. Description: Modernize Old Greensboro Road (SR-1005)from Jones Ferry Road (SR-1942)to Alamance County with NCDOT standard street cross-section section 2B (60' row, 11'travel lanes, with 5' paved shoulder), add turn lanes and safety Total 339 County priority improvements at Jones Ferry Road (SR-1942), Hatch Road (SR-1944), Neville Road (SR-1945), Carl Durham Road (SR- west 2800 - 3000 5 fatal redefined as DCHC Old Greensboro 1950), White Cross Road (SR-1951), Wildcat Creek Road (SR-1953), and Orange Chapel Clover Garden Road (SR-1956). 6 serious injury County Priority highway County priority /TARP (SR-1005) Road 45 minor injury project as highway O Improvement' Need: This project would provide a continuous paved bikeway segment from Carrboro through the southwestern portion of 51 possible injury 22.36 Division project Orange County to connect with other bikeway segments that comprise the state's Mountain to Sea bicycle route. The project east 4600 -4800 232 property Meets RPO is not likely to score very high using either the State's highway or bike/pedestrian scoring factors because of its rural context damage SPOT process and is only eligible for funding at the division tier.