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County jurisdictions (top 22 of the 87 projects submitted by all local jurisdictions in the MPO). The <br />following lists Orange County's priorities compared to Division 7 and regional priority ranking: <br /> <br />Orange Count Priority Division 7 <br />Pr!w? Regional <br />Priority <br />_ <br />1. Orange Grove Road pedestrian bridge over 1-40 3 9 <br />2. Homestead Road improvements 20 43 <br />3. Improvements to South Churton Street 2 7 <br />4. Old NC 86 bicycle lanes 28 55 <br />5. NC 86 bicycle lanes 20 43 <br />6. NC 86 Improvements north of Hillsborough 44 86 <br />7. US 70 Bypass Widening 43 85 <br />8.. Eno Mountain Rd./Mayo St./Orange Grove Rd. <br />intersection realignment <br />20 <br />43 <br />9. Orange Grove Rd. extension to US 70 Business 27 53 <br />TAC members may request that the regional priority ranking of a project be switched with the <br />ranking of another project submitted by the same jurisdiction to ensure that the local jurisdiction's <br />priorities are addressed. For example, Orange County may request that bicycle lanes on Old NC <br />86 (Orange County priority 4, Division 7 priority 28) be moved to Division 7 priority 20 in place of <br />bicycle lanes on NC 86 (Orange County priority 5, Division 7 priority 20) and vice versa. The TAC <br />will also decide the ranking for projects scoring the same number of points, which are all <br />represented having the same rank in the draft regional priority list. For example, three of the 7 <br />projects having a rank of 20 in the Division 7 list (Figure 5) are Orange County priorities. Only one <br />of the seven projects will have a final priority of number 20 (43 in regional list in Figure 3). The <br />other projects having a rank of 20 will take their places from priority 21 to priority 26 (priority 44 to <br />priority 52 in Attachment 2, Figure 3). <br />The attached resolution also addresses TIP Project 1-0305, widening of 1-85 from 1-40 to the <br />Orange/Durham County Line. The NCDOT MPO Coordinator has asked the Lead Planning Agency <br />to rate that project using the ranking criteria used for other projects in the regional priority list, and <br />to include it in the final draft priority list that will be considered by the TAC, "because of the project's <br />importance to the Department" (Attachment 3, letter from Michael Orr). <br />The TAC, at its meeting on August 10, 2005, adopted a Metropolitan Transportation Improvement <br />Program (MTIP) for FY 2006-2012 that was different from the 2006-2012 STIP recently approved <br />by NCDOT. One of the differences concerned the description of Project 1-0305. The TAC <br />approved the description only "to reconstruct interchanges and structures". <br />Attachment 3 gives reasons to reinstate the project description that includes widening 1-85 to six <br />lanes in the 2007-2013 TIP. Orange County has previously submitted comments regarding other <br />features desired by the County as part of the project. Those comments are included in the <br />attached resolution. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no financial impact associated with this item. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board endorse comments to the <br />Transportation Advisory Committee of the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning <br />Organization regarding the draft Regional Priority List for the 2007 -2013 Transportation <br />Improvement Program. <br />2