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ATTACHMENT 2 <br />47 <br />priority connection between proposed bicycle facilities along Old Fayetteville Road, <br />Homestead Road and Eubanks Road. <br />The feasibility study for TIP Project R-2825, improvements to South Churton Street, <br />recommends a four-lane divided section for Old NC 86 (S. Churton St.) from I-40 to <br />Lafayette Drive. That study also anticipates accommodations for bicycles (wide outside <br />lanes) from I-40 to I-85. This project would connect bicycle facilities proposed in the South <br />Churton Street project to Carrboro. Canboro's Priority List for the 2006-2012 TIP included <br />two bicycle projects on Old NC 86 that, along with this request and TIP project R-2825, <br />would complete a Hillsborough-Carrboro bicycle route: <br />• from Old Fayetteville Road to Homestead Road; and <br />• from Homestead Road to Eubanks Road, <br />5. NC 86, Bicycle Lanes: Construct bicycle lanes (4-foot paved shoulders) from Chapel Hill <br />(Whitfield Road) to Hillsborough (US 70 Business). This project will extend bicycle lanes <br />on Airport Road (NC86) in Chapel Hill to US 70 Business in Hillsborough. Bicycle lanes <br />have recently been completed along NC 86 from UNC to Whitfield Road (SR 1731) in <br />Orange County. NC 86 from Chapel Hill to Hillsborough is experiencing increasing <br />numbers of bicyclists using this route and there are also two schools along this route. This <br />route is listed as priority I of the primary bicycle routes proposed in the Orange County <br />Bicycle Transportation Plan adopted April 6, 1999. This project is included in the Bicycle <br />Program as an incidental need. Orange County requests that bicycle lanes be constructed as <br />an independent project, and, if necessary, programmed in phases. <br />6. NC 86 (North of Hillsborough) Improvements: Widen NC 86, from US 70 Bypass north of <br />Hillsborough to SR 1332, Coleman Loop (Coleman Loop also being the intersection area of <br />the planned connector between NC 86 and NC 57), to four lanes with intersection <br />improvements at US 70 Bypass to include extending the queuing lane for traffic turning east <br />onto US 70 Bypass from northbound Churton Street/NC 86. NC 86 is the major north-south <br />route through Orange County. NC 57 converges into US 86 just north of US 70 Bypass.. The <br />segment of NC 86 between NC 57 and US 70 is congested, rendering a high accident <br />location at the intersection of US 70 Bypass at NC 86. <br />7. US 70 Bypass Widening: Widen, from the Orange/Durham County Line to the US 70 - I-85 <br />Connector east of Efland, US 70 Bypass to a four-lane divided section with bike and <br />pedestrian improvements. This project should be phased to address traffic counts and <br />existing congestion. Orange County requests that this project be identified as a need and <br />included in the 2006-2012 STIP. <br />8. U-3436, SR 1148 (Eno Mountain Road) and SR 1192 (Mayo Street) at SR 1006 (Orange <br />Grove Road): realign intersection and make safety improvements. This protect is listed in <br />the 2004 - 2010 TIP as an unfunded project. It was a "first priority project" in the Town of <br />Hillsborough Thoroughfare Plan for 1989 but the Hillsborough Town Board removed the <br />realignment from the Hillsborough Transportation Plan in 1997. More recently, <br />Hillsborough Commissioners and Orange County Commissioners have endorsed the project <br />DCHC MPO - Regional Priority List for FY 2007-2013 MTIP Page 62