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50 impending situation and, at some point will be called for based on the projected growth. And we used the 51 regional model statewide model to verify that. And So, what we were kind of faced with was, OK, if we 52 know ultimately this two-lane roadway that is you know that that was points for it feels very rural or when 53 it goes through you know a more populated area seems like the potential for great like maybe downtown 54 placemaking type feel like in Mebane. We were trying to figure out how to balance the need to move 55 traffic with providing for multimodal users whether that's transit amenities or PEDs and bikes. So, the 56 idea that we, you know, our quote, tearing down landscape, I think that's going to come from what 57 happens as frontages along US 70 are redeveloped, whether that's private development and those 58 developers are held to certain standards or whether that what goes into the complete street typical section 59 that would ultimately be implemented most likely by an NC DOT widening project. 60 61 N. Trivedi: Laura, can I ask you a quick follow-up question to the issue of widening and landscaping? 62 Hillsborough has its landscaping plan for that whitening that landscaping to know he'll widening 70 is also 63 planning how the landscaping is preserved. This is in their connectivity plan. This is also in their 64 sustainability plan that fed into this US 70 Study. 65 66 L. Triebert: Right. That's my understanding. 67 68 N. Trivedi: This is how the land is preserved through landscaping or other improvements that would be 69 covered by complete streets or potentially be covered by complete streets and the landscaping would be 70 done by the developer, making their development improvements to accommodate and ensure 71 landscaping as the areas being as the road corridor evolves. 72 73 L. Triebert: Right, as it's growing. Yes, that's my understanding.Art, is that you? 74 75 N. Trivedi: Art, Sherry, and then Greg. 76 77 A. Menius: yeah, the expansion from two to four lanes seemed inconsistent with most of the rest of the 78 goals of the project seemed an outlier compared to slowing traffic, making it more friendly for pedestrians 79 and bicyclists. And you know the many goals I agree with that appear in this plan, which is the vast 80 majority. Getting traffic on the highway to 85 or 40 is mentioned in the important sections about improving 81 the connectivity between the 70 corridor and the interstates, which is absolutely correct. And there's and 82 the suggestions there are very good, but to me it seems like a lot of these goals and important step in 83 that is moving all the traffic they can get moved over to the interstates and 70 not be a first choice and 84 someone except for short commutes within the area to make our goal to move every vehicle over to the 85 Interstate, we can move over to the Interstate and Off of 70. 86 87 L. Triebert: The models that we use to project future roadway traffic, trucks and vehicles, not PEDs and 88 bikes, that's based on the current adopted statewide model, what that includes is a widened 40 and 85. 89 It includes all fiscally constrained projects in the comprehensive transportation plans, and looking at 2050, 90 the model puts the traffic on the path of least resistance from its origin to its destination and gives us the 91 amount of traffic that is expected to be on US 70 in the future year, and that accounts for all the traffic 92 moving to 40 and 85 based on the available capacity within the network that was modeled. And so, what 93 we see when that happens (speaker shared her screen) this service table (11) that we have for the 94 corridor and assuming a two-lane highway, even with the 40 and 85 widening and the improvement of 95 Church Street and improvements in the long-range plans, we're still seeing levels of level service of E 96 and F, which is just like a report card. Those are failing levels of service. That's why I wanted to make it 97 clear that's not a recommendation of the study. We're assuming that that is eventually going to be a base 98 condition because we can tell from the traffic projections that it's going to be warranted in the future and, 99 we did a lot of data analysis and collection and verification early in the process to make sure that we had 100 good estimates for those.