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102 the W Radio Station. N.Trivedi: I told our communications team who does all of the public engagement with news for Orange 103 County to use all available resources.S.Appel:If you provided a press release to the News of Orange and it's clean and not too 104 long,they will run it verbatim.And you can do the same on Chapelboro's website and the radio station.NN:Got it. 105 106 S.Appel: How many people so far have you had feedback from?NN:So far we've spoken to a lot of people at the pops-up,but 107 I'd have to ask our public engagement person how many people have responded to the survey so far.Closer to 100.There was 108 a question regarding using the Daily Tarheel for surveys. N.Trivedi explained that since Chapel Hill Transit was doing its own 109 SRTP,the County will participate when they do theirs. NN:explained that they want to get views from the whole County but be 110 careful of getting results from people in Chapel Hill who only take Chapel Hill Transit. 111 112 5.11b. US 70 Multimodal Corridor Study 113 114 N.Trivedi presented the final study results. 115 116 G.Woloszczuk: Do we have any data on bike lane usage?I was almost run over on the sidewalk. N.Trivedi: Near misses don't 117 get reported. Hillsborough and Mebane Bike-Ped data fed this plan.Orange County hasn't done it yet but will be doing one next 118 year.This plan addresses our data gap. 119 120 R.Marshall: How is 70 classified,is it a thoroughfare or?N.Trivedi:Federal Highway. It is considered a Federal Highway like I- 121 40. 1 can get you documentation on this. R. Marshall: So who officiates in terms of access?Are there Federal officials who 122 determine if you can add a business driveway or other things?N.Trivedi:NCDOT and federal agencies. 123 124 R.Marshall:Are we trying to be more of a Complete Streets project or get people from Durham to Mebane?N.Trivedi:I'm about 125 to cover that in the recommendations.Recommendations include reducing the speed in specific areas including the urbanized 126 areas. 127 128 G.Woloszczuk asked how reducing speed would reduce accidents.J. Mayo: Reduced speed and multilane seem like a tough 129 combination to work like in MLK,even with development on both sides,folks are going well over 35. 1 have concerns about the 130 lack of future demand shown in the document.I don't think I saw anything in future traffic numbers that will justify four lanes. 131 132 S.Appel:The railroads own a lot of the rideway to the South of 70 from the last part of Hillsborough all along to Mebane;have 133 they been engaged in this process,this vision?N.Trivedi:Yes.NCDOT(IMD and Railroad)is part of the Core Technical Team and 134 has been from the beginning.We will forward these comments as part of the public engagement portion to the consultant. 135 136 J. Mayo: How does that play into the SRTP, especially given that the existing conditions highlight that the Oange-Alamance 137 Connector may be better served by demand response?N.Trivedi:Or reorganizing that fixed route for better service because this 138 plan's transit recommendations will feed into that plan as this is locally adopted.J.Mayo:So,the 70 plan would feed the SRTP 139 recommendation?N.Trivedi:Yes.J.Mayo:Even though the Transit experts are on the SRTP?N.Trivedi:That's something we can 140 discuss when we get to the SRTP recommendations as one document feeds the other. Further recommendation slides were 141 shown,and both Durham and GoTriangle SRTP informed this process. 142 143 A.Cole:You presented this last month, N.Trivedi. Last month we were asked to submit our comments. N.Trivedi: I presented 144 the recommendations, and I gave you the whole document, and you had a month to review this. A. Cole: If you weren't here 145 that's one thing,but we were given a presentation last month,and we were asked to provide comments. I also feel like you did 146 your due diligence,in giving us the time that we wanted to provide feedback. You provided last time where those heavy traffic 147 areas are,and I didn't see that in this report today but what I'm not clear on is the true goal of widening 70 besides those five key 148 things we're talking about at the beginning which are completely contradictory to the plan of 70.We talked about preserving 149 nature,and rural communities,and then we talked about what we want to do to widen roads but those are very contradictory to 150 me.So,I don't understand what our true goal is.Whether or not it's to get people off 70 or to make it easier for people to drive on 151 70.And we have a parallel road which is 1-85 which is expected to be widened by the time frame of what we're proposing to 152 widen 70.So,either our goal is to get people off of one,or off of the other.And if the goal is to get people off 70 and on to 85,then 153 1 don't think we need to widen it if we want to make it into a rural space with the bike-ped stuff.If you keep it as is and make it a