Agenda - 10-07-2008 - 6e - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

' ATTACHMENT 6 ORANGE COUNTY TRANSPORTATION PRIORITY LIST WITHIN THE DURHAM-CHAPEL HILL-CARRBORO ~~ METROPOLITAN AREA BOUNDARY FOR CONSIDERATION OF FUNDING IN THE 2009 -- 2015 TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM 4. Old NC 86 (SR 1009) Bicycle Lanes: Construct bicycle lanes (4-foot paved shoulders) from Carrboro (Eubanks Road) to Hillsborough (I-40). This project, from the Carrboro Transition area (Hickory Forest Road) to Lafayette Drive, is priority 6 of the primary bicycle routes listed in the Orange County Bicycle Transportation Plan, and would extend bicycle accommodations requested in TIP Project R-2825 to Carrboro, where its Transportation Advisory Committee has also established bicycle routes on Old NC 86 as a transportation priority connection between proposed bicycle facilities along Old Fayetteville Road, Homestead Road and Eubanks Road. The feasibility study for TIP Project R-2825, improvements to South Churton Street, recommends afour-lane divided section for Old NC 86 (S. Churton St.) from I-40 to Lafayette Drive. That study also anticipates accommodations for bicycles (wide outside lanes) from I-40 to 1=85. This project would connect bicycle facilities proposed in the South Churton Street project to Carrboro. Carrboro's Priority List for the 2006-2012 TIP included two bicycle projects on Old NC 86 that, along with this request and TIP project R-2825, would complete aHillsborough-Carrboro bicycle route: • from Old Fayetteville Road to Homestead Road; and ® from Homestead Road to Eubanks Road. 5. NC 86 Bicycle Lanes: Construct bicycle lanes (4-foot paved shoulders) from Chapel Hill (Whitfield Road) to Hillsborough (US 70 Business). This project will extend bicycle lanes on Airport Road (NC86) in Chapel Hill to US 70 Business in Hillsborough. Bicycle lanes have recently been completed along NC 86 from UNC to Whitfield Road (SR 1731) in Orange County. NC 86 from Chapel Hill to Hillsborough is experiencing increasing numbers of bicyclists using this route and there are also two schools along this route. This route is listed as priority I of the primary bicycle routes proposed in the Orange County Bicycle Transportation Plan adopted April 6, 1999. This project is included in the Bicycle Program as an incidental need. Orange County requests that bicycle lanes be constructed as an independent project, and, if necessary, programmed in phases.