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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOUTBoard Minutes 051519 Approved 8/21/19 1 MINUTES 2 ORANGE COUNTY OUTBOARD 3 MAY 15,2019 4 REGULAR MEETING 5 6 MEMBERS PRESENT: Brantley Wells (Vice Chair), Hillsborough Township Representative; Ram Athavale, Chapel Hill 7 Township Representative; Donna Musson, Eno Township Representative; Ed Vaughn, Cedar Grove Township 8 Representative; David Laudicina, Cheeks Township Representative; Heidi Perry, At-Large Representative; Erik Broo, At- 9 Large Representative;Amy Cole,At-Large Representative, Randy Marshall, Bingham Township Representative; 10 11 MEMBERS ABSENT: Art Menlus, Little River Township Representative (Chair); Johanna Birckmayer,At-Large Representative; 12 Alyson West,At-Large Representative; Jenn Sykes,At-Large Representative; Todd Jones,At-Large Representative; 13 14 TRANSIT ADVISORY SERVICES MEMBERS PRESENT: Theo Letman, Allyson Coltrane; Teleishia Holloway, Lisa Berley; Erica 15 Bryant, Janice Tyler; Serena McPherson; Beverly Scurry;Anna Sienna; 16 17 STAFF PRESENT: Abigaile Pittman, Transportation/Land Use Planner; Nish Trivedi, Transportation Planner; Tina Love, 18 Administrative Assistant III; 19 20 AGENDA ITEM 1: CALL TO ORDER,DETERMINATION OF QUORUM AND INTRODUCTION OF NEW MEMBERS 21 Brantley Wells called the meeting to order. 22 23 AGENDA ITEM 2: APPROVAL OF MINUTES 24 MOTION by Heidi Perry to approve the February 20, and April 17, 2019 OUTBoard Minutes. Seconded by Erik Broo. 25 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 26 27 AGENDA ITEM 3: CONSIDERATION OF ADDITIONS TO AGENDA 28 29 AGENDA ITEM 4A: OCPT/ORANGE COUNTY COMMUTER OPTIONS(OCCO)UPDATE(ALLYSON COLTRANE) 30 Allyson Coltrane gave updates on the County's commuter options 31 32 Beverly Scurry: Is there any way to make connections with people who live in our area? 33 34 Allyson Coltrane: We have a share ride NC program that matches you with just Orange County employees or we'll match 35 you with your similar ZIP code, so you can be grouped into the carpool or the vanpool. 36 37 Heidi Perry: I was wondering if there was any thought to having another enrichment event during non-working hours. 38 39 Allyson Coltrane:Yes,we're going to partner with the chamber to do one after business hours. 40 41 AGENDA ITEM 4B: OCPT ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATES(THEO LETMAN,TELEISHIA HOLLOWAY)— 42 Theo Letman and Teleishia Holloway gave updates on the departments transit projects 43 44 David Laudicina: Has there been any discussion about Alamance kicking in any money for this thing? Why are we spending 45 money to support Alamance coming in? 46 47 Theo Letman: These routes that we're moving forward were already in the Orange County transit plans and were already 48 approved. We're just bringing them forward to the next fiscal year. Alamance is part of a different MPO designated area. 49 We are currently coordinating with the Wake County transit plans as well as the Durham County transit plans. 50 51 David Laudicina: The whole idea was that everyone chips in. I have a problem with helping to support people who aren't 52 chipping in. 53 54 Amy Cole: It also does support the Orange County residents who may work out of those facilities. 1 Approved 8/21/19 55 56 Theo Letman: The transit boundaries as well as the MPO boundaries are not drawn by the County;you have some overlaps. 57 For the Burlington-Graham MPO area, for example, we get funds from them even though they're service area is 58 predominately Burlington and Mebane. 59 60 Randy Marshall: On the first map you have 6:30-9:30. Is that 9:30 a.m.? Does that mean you just run it three times? 61 62 Teleishia Holloway:Yes,just during peak hours. 63 64 Randy Marshall: How do people get home? 65 66 Teleishia Holloway: That's the research that we'll have to do. We were thinking of connecting to the ODX on the way back 67 home in the evening. 68 69 Theo Letman:There are other services that are currently run in the evening, and we're just trying to give a more direct route. 70 71 Randy Marshall:And people who are doing this would be fully aware of what options are available? 72 73 Theo Letman: The long-range transit planning process with Nelson Nygaard, they did. We gave out surveys as well and got 74 a prioritization list of all the top routes that people said they wanted to have. 75 76 Lisa Berley: Will there be more than one stop in Cedar Grove? 77 78 Theo Letman: The community center is probably the best place for our buses because we have a parking lot and we have a 79 bus shelter there. 80 81 Randy Marshall:At some point you'll have ridership numbers? 82 83 Theo Letman:Yes. 84 85 Donna Musson: Into our park and ride lot here in Hillsborough coming from the country to Durham? 86 87 Theo Letman: It's already in the works to have a park and ride lot in Hillsborough. We already know that the Maxway 88 shopping area does not allow any of your transit connections to be there, so we looked on the Highway 70 corridor, at the 89 Credit Union parking lot or somewhere else in that corridor. 90 91 Nish Trivedi:That's something GoTriangle is doing. 92 93 Amy Cole: What is the culture behind people not wanting transit to enter into their business area? 94 95 Theo Letman: Some jurisdictions favor transit and want the traffic, others don't. They feel like our buses going on to a 96 private parking area would tear up their pavement. They would have the reinforce their parking lot at a cost, or the 97 commuters are taking up their parking spots for their shoppers. 98 99 Lisa Berley: There'll be some new stops? 100 101 Theo Letman: Sure, and if there's a preference to where we get interest when we present this, we can modify this. 102 103 David Laudicina: In regard to The Orange-Chapel Hill connector route that is already in existence, are you going to be 104 adding any stops on that? 105 106 Theo Letman: Some of the work we do at the MPO level is to support our services better. 107 108 Ram Athavale: Can you give me a sense of the construction and type of buses, how big? Are they state-of-the-art, hybrid? 2 Approved 8/21/19 109 110 Theo Letman: We are looking at state-of-the-art buses, and we're in the process of doing replacements. We're also looking 111 at changing up our fleet from going to a cut-away model to the Ford transit or a Sprinter type van; a newer, sleeker looking 112 vehicle. We are in talks with Ford now. We'll present more of that information as we get further in the process. 113 114 Erik Broo: Have you considered compressed natural gas. 115 116 Theo Letman: I ran a fleet of compressed natural gas buses in Atlanta and the fuel efficiency with diesel is relatively the 117 same. The ozone for diesel is better. 118 119 David Laudicina: Is propane efficient? 120 121 Theo Letman: For propane,we're just getting information. 122 123 Erik Broo: I have a question about the on-demand service. Will they be wheelchair equipped? 124 125 Theo Letman:They do not. I think it's appropriate to also have wheelchair accessible vehicles. 126 127 Erik Broo: I work out in Wake County, and I go to Cary a lot. They have fully electric vehicles and I haven't seen them in any 128 of the other municipalities. I didn't know if you guys had plans to have fully electric or hybrid vehicles. 129 130 Theo Letman: Or autonomous. Autonomous is coming; it's out there. 131 132 Erik Broo: For the routes that only have four to six passengers, is there any thought of making those hybridized or electric? 133 134 Theo Letman: Sure. We're in the beginning of that process, and every vendor that we've talked to we've asked them to 135 provide a quote that has that technology. 136 137 Amy Cole: Is there a demand for people to utilize those services to go to a bus stop so they can then go to rest of the way? 138 139 Theo Letman: I know that GoTriangle did that and that's they're concept. To have a shuttle van take them to a transit center 140 in a secular bus line. 141 142 Amy Cole: I was thinking about the rural areas where they don't have immediate access to where the bus would pick up. 143 144 Theo Letman:That's why we're going to do a pilot first to see where the demand is coming from. 145 146 Beverly Scurry: Do you see the service more for one on one or groups? 147 148 Theo Letman: I think because it's public transit, we would assume that it's a shared ride. There will be times when there will 149 be only one person in the vehicle or there might be three or four. 150 151 Heidi Perry: Do you know when you're going to mold this? 152 153 Theo Letman: It will be during the summertime. The project is out for public comment right now, and I think they intend for it 154 to be approved by the boards before the summer break. 155 156 Randy Marshall: Is there a comfortable way for some of your clients to use their phones to determine where the bus is and 157 know when the pick-up is going to be? 158 159 Theo Letman: That's an add on module that will be coming when we launch the Mobility OnDemand Service. 160 161 David Laudicina: Does Chapel Hill Transit already have that? 162 3 Approved 8/21/19 163 Lisa Berley: They use Next Bus. 164 165 Heidi Perry: What is the software called? 166 167 Teleishia Holloway: It's called Eco Lane. 168 169 Brantley Wells: Is it automated or is it someone dialing? 170 171 Teleishia Holloway: It's actually someone dialing, but that is another module that can be added on. 172 173 Erik Broo: I can't get a bus from Chapel Hill or anywhere nearby to the airport. Is there a reason for that? Has there been 174 demand for people to get to the airport and not have to drive their car to parking? 175 176 Theo Letman: We have gone through years and years of transit planning and going to the airport was somehow left out of 177 the equation. 178 179 Heidi Perry: I've asked GoTriangle this question. They always say there's not enough demand and others say the airport 180 won't let them do it because they want all the people to pay for the parking decks they built. 181 182 Erik Broo: Has it been studied? Is there a demand for it? Even if you're paying the airport to be able to drop people off and 183 pick people up,that might be a valuable service. 184 185 Theo Letman: The transit plan is now going to have to be redone. This will be a wonderful question to be asked. You guys 186 are looking at transit services in the area but what about to the airport? 187 188 Lisa Berley: Can you say anything about the decision-making process that takes place with the finalization of what projects 189 are going to go forward. What part is the County Commissioners,what part is GoTriangle regional planning? 190 191 Nish Trivedi: There are lots of different processes that are involved in the decision-making process and Orange County 192 plays a roll in each of them. This is the overall Orange County Transit Plan; it is for the overall county transit services. 193 Orange County has one, Durham County, and Wake County have their own separate transit plans. Previously Go Triangle 194 administered these plans, now each County is looking to take control of their own transit plan. There is another process 195 through the MPO that is more the state process which is the strategic prioritization of transportation (SPOT) and Orange 196 County identifies certain projects that are put forward for that process. There is GoTriangle which is a regional transit 197 provider and they have their own toolkit of processes for their brand. Orange County plays a role in each of these other 198 processes. I am not a transit planner but I know transit agencies have their own federal requirements for other processes 199 they are involved in. 200 201 Theo Letman: There are many plans and boards and committees and working groups that go into planning. Each county 202 going forward is going to be responsible for their own transit plan. 203 204 David Laudicina: There has to be collaboration between Durham and Wake. There was a ton of collaboration for the light 205 rail between Orange County and Durham County. 206 207 Nish Trivedi: And that collaboration happens at the MPO. The current adopted transit plans have gone before the MPO so 208 that they could be collaborated on together. Previously it was Go Triangle that did most of the work to collaborate these 209 transit plans together, now each County will have to collaborate on their own when doing these transit plans. 210 211 Lisa Berley: Does Orange County have control over the pot of money that is accumulated through the Orange residents 212 paying and what is done with it? 213 214 Theo Letman: Yes, It is dispersed by an interlocal agreement with Chapel Hill, and all the city municipalities in Orange 215 County. That is done at the commissioner level and city council level. They have to render a decision. 216 4 Approved 8/21/19 217 Lisa Berley: I wanted to bring up a couple of things that the Master Aging Plan and the groups that were thought to be 218 important in the transit plan. One has to do with the elderly and disabled transportation assistance program which is the 219 funding source for a lot of the demand services for older adults and people who are disabled. Could this program get 220 funding under the reallocation of transit from the light rail? 221 222 Theo Letman: The tax district dollars go to the increased cost of existing services and for expansion services. It's a small pot 223 of money for rural operating assistance that we do get from the state. There are other funding streams that we get as well. 224 All programs are tied really to population, so the Census play as huge part in the level of funding that we get, and will play a 225 huge part in the coming Census. As areas go from rural to urban, those moneys will shrink even further. If you're asking to 226 utilize those funds to help offsetting the expenditures in rural areas that has to be put in the form of a project as an 227 expansion of services which we can look at doing or it can be utilized for capital expenses as in buying buses or for 228 purchasing more equipment. 229 230 Lisa Berley: How do we get that added to the plan? 231 232 Theo Letman: Every month we have meetings, and we talk about the different types of services and the projects that we 233 want to provide to the rural areas. 234 235 Janice Tyler:Who holds that pot of money that's been collected and makes that decision? 236 237 Theo Letman: Orange County. 238 239 Heidi Perry: Remember that$130 million already went to the light rail and not all of is from Orange County. 240 $158 million is what they're planning to have go to it before it finishes. 241 242 Theo Letman:They are still doing the calculations on what is going to be spent on the remainder of the light rail project. 243 244 Lisa Berley: This is for a certain small part of our population for individuals who temporarily or full time are in a wheelchair 245 but are too frail to go on the buses that Orange County Public Transportation has. Is there a role that our public government 246 can play in offsetting the high price of transportation or having a vehicle that we can also help people with? 247 248 Janice Tyler: Like a Sprinter vehicle? 249 250 Theo Letman: They are called ambulatory services. Transit is a public service, so we can't be just exclusive to one person. 251 That's not to say we can't look at other types of services or concepts if we have need in our community. 252 253 Erik Broo: Like a minivan that might cost a bit more than it normally would? 254 255 Heidi Perry:Are there no private medical services? 256 257 Lisa Berley: There are plenty of private ones, but they are very expensive. 258 259 Heidi Perry: I'm wondering if there's a way to partner with them, so we don't have to buy the van or the driver, but we can 260 maybe subsidize. 261 262 Theo Letman. We will definitely look into that. 263 264 Theo Letman. Seats on the Staff Working Group (SWG); that is part of the Technical Committee to the MPO are appointed 265 by the County Manager.You can attend the meetings, all meetings are public. 266 267 Heidi: You can sign up to speak at these meetings and get a copy of the agenda prior to the meeting. 268 5 Approved 8/21/19 269 Nish: DCHC MPO is public, Staff Working Group is not, it is more within the agencies and officials. The MPO meetings are 270 public and you are welcomed to attend them and speak. One thing DCHC MPO is known for in the state is that it considers 271 Transit is an important component at every meeting, in both the TC and Board. 272 273 AGENDA ITEM 4C: TRANSIT ADVISORY SERVICES(TAS)COMMENTS/QUESTIONS(THEO LETMAN)- 274 Theo Letman asked if any TAS members had any additional questions or comments 275 276 AGENDA ITEM 5: REGULAR OUTBOARD AGENDA(ACTION ITEMS) 277 278 AGENDA ITEM 6: STAFF REPORTS/UPDATES 279 280 AGENDA ITEM 6A: ORANGE COUNTY'S PORTION OF TRIANGLE FREIGHT PLAN(NISH TRIVEDI) 281 Nish presented the Triangle Regional Freight Plan 282 283 Heidi Perry: What does that refer to,the 2 million square feet of manufacturing industry? 284 285 Nish Trivedi:Any distribution centers or anything that relates that freight is coming to or distributing along the state roads. 286 287 Heidi Perry: Can you send those slides? 288 289 Nish Trivedi: I can send you the slides and send you the link to the actual plan. 290 291 AGENDA ITEM 613: TRIANGLE BIKE AND PED WORKSHOP,MARCH 29,2019(ABIGAILE PITTMAN) 292 293 David Laudicina: What are protected bike lanes? 294 295 Heidi Perry: More often it has some sort of physical barrier between the car and the bikes. 296 297 David Laudicina: I didn't know if that meant security. Durham needs to be talking about security on their bike lanes. 298 299 Heidi Perry: That's very different because the protected bike lanes usually run alongside a real lane. 300 301 Randy Marshall: Would electric scooters fit into bike or ped since they're not mentioned. 302 303 Heidi Perry: They're discussing that right now at the Legislature, but I think they will probably go on the road. It's probably 304 going to come down to municipalities being able to make decisions, but I think if they're allowed on sidewalks there will be 305 speed limits. 306 307 Randy Marshall: They're becoming prolific and there's no mention of them anywhere in the either bike or ped presentation 308 that you're making, and it seems like somebody needs to take up the responsibility. 309 310 Heidi Perry: I think there a lot of things besides just scooters coming out. In Chapel Hill, there are these electric 311 skateboards with only one wheel, and those are on the roads, but I didn't think everybody is waiting to see what restrictions 312 to state puts on them before the municipalities develop a plan. 313 314 Ed Vaughn: Are you going to start putting bike lanes back in with the road projects? 315 316 Nish Trivedi: The NDDOT Complete Street Policy Update is a process through a committee. The goal is to eventually have 317 design and road projects that include bike and ped. How that is going to be implemented is unknown yet. The 2.0 version is 318 a change to their policy. It is yet to be determined how they will include bike/ped into road projects. Complete Street is a 319 multimodal policy, not just bike/ped. Multimodal is freight,transit, bike/ped, and others. 320 321 Heidi Perry: NCDOT has a thing called NCDOT Moves 2050 online and they're taking a survey on what you want to see in 322 the future. You will have the write in things like bus and bike because they don't seem to include those as options but there 6 Approved 8/21/19 323 is a place for comments. The other thing is that in 2013 the state passed a law that said no stand-alone bike and pedestrian 324 projects could be funded with state funding from DOT. That means that if Hillsborough or somebody else wanted to put in a 325 sidewalk or a separated multi-use path and they got the federal funding that community would have the come up with the 20 326 percent match. 327 328 Nish Trivedi: TARPO is one of the RPO's that has signed a resolution in support of such legislation directed towards 329 reducing or eliminating the local match requirement for bike/ped. 330 331 Heidi Perry: I think it's up to 11 RPO's and MPOs have signed on to that. 332 333 AGENDA ITEM 6C: SMALL TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS INPUT(ABIGAILE PITTMAN) 334 335 Janice Tyler: Is there a place you can report to for fixing potholes? 336 337 Abigaile Pittman: You can tell us, and we can tell the maintenance section of NCDOT. Does anybody have anything they'd 338 like to offer up as a possible project? 339 340 Randy Marshall: I mentioned getting a rumble strips when Chuck Edwards was here. 341 342 Erik Broo: For the 1-40 widening and the MILK interchange at 266, initially the plans did not include signal synchronization. 343 Can we add that? 344 345 Nish Trivedi: That interchange portion of the project has been delayed. We will follow up with you and keep you informed as 346 the 1-40 widening project progresses. 347 348 Erik Broo: The signal operations will be a big benefit for The Weaver Dairy/MLK intersection. The distance between Weaver 349 Dairy by the Food Lion and the Fire Station between that and the highway is a relatively short distance with a couple 350 intersections and there are a lot of LI turns at the Weaver Dairy/MLK light for people turning north heading back to the 351 highway. It's already getting jammed up as it is and so when they widen the highway for the population growth people are 352 worried about getting out of the neighborhood at the light there. 353 354 Nish Trivedi: How far are you looking for synchronization? Signal synchronization is not just an individual intersection. It 355 involves the timing of multiple signals along a corridor. 356 357 Erik Broo: Anywhere from Weaver Dairy Road north on MILK past 1-40 on right and side that goes down into the country 358 towards Durham 15-501. 359 360 Nish Trivedi: Duke Forest area. 361 362 Erik Broo: Yes, Whitfield, there to MLK should be synchronized just so people can make it through that very congested 363 segment. 364 365 Nish Trivedi: Synchronization is part of SPOT safety. We'll call NCDOT and ask about synchronizing two of those lights as 366 part of the 1-40 widening.. 367 368 Janice Tyler: So, as part of that 140 widening are they also paying close attention to pedestrian and bicycle accidents. 369 Cause there's a huge development that's going in basically within less than a quarter mile from all the shopping that they 370 need. 371 372 Nish Trivedi: Carraway Village. Yes, there was a very big push for sidewalks, crosswalks, BRT and other improvements 373 associated with the project. 374 375 Janice Tyler: Carraway Village and right across from that Chapel Hill North shopping area. 376 7 Approved 8/21/19 377 Randy Marshall: The section of Rocky Ridge Road that runs about a mile from Dairyland to Arthur Minnis in front of the 378 Maple View Farms ice cream. If they could resurface that one-mile section and put some paved shoulders or bike lanes that 379 would make a big difference. They started to gravel it a couple of times, but they have not done anything about the other 380 lane because it's a very bumpy road and it's also heavily used by commuters to get up to I-40. It's used by cyclists who 381 often gather at the Maple View Ice Cream store to begin and end their ride. Resurface that one mile section with bike lanes. 382 383 Nish Trivedi:Are you talking about Rocky Ridge Road or Arthur Minnis? 384 385 Randy Marshall. I'm talking about making improvements on Rocky Ridge between Dairyland and Arthur Minnis. 386 The other is the half mile section between the end of Fayetteville Rd. up to Calvander and Carrboro where the bike lanes 387 disappear. 388 389 Nish Trivedi: Carrboro does want a bike lane up to Calvander I believe going north and east in Carrboro's jurisdiction. 390 391 Randy Marshall: The Carrboro town limits end with the end of the bike lanes. It would be an Orange County project to go 392 from there. It could be a Carrboro/Orange County project in the next half mile. 393 394 Nish Trivedi: We're trying to push for that in modernizing those roads with paved shoulders. We'll go to NCDOT and ask if 395 we can get a little piece of that improved. 396 397 Ram Athavale: In Carrboro, Jones Ferry and Old Fayetteville Road, the middle of that intersection has a pretty strong dip 398 and rise that can be damaging to vehicles. I wondered if that can be looked at and possibly repaired under one of these 399 programs. 400 401 Nish Trivedi:Jones Ferry in south Carrboro? 402 403 Ram Athavale: Yes, south of Carrboro. 404 405 Nish Trivedi: Carrboro has an ETJ, so I'll have to look and review their ETJ. I'll check on it. There are a lot of issues in that 406 area,just depends on the ETJ whether we can pursue it or Carrboro must. 407 408 Abigaile Pittman. We are still waiting for NCDOT on the Orange Grove Road assessment. 409 410 Randy Marshall: Is that the Orange Grove Road Extension? 411 412 Abigaile Pittman: No, it is the section down by the Cedar Ridge High School, from the pedestrian bridge up to the High 413 School. We asked NCDOT to see if there were additional safety measures that could be taken. 414 415 Brantley Wells: I saw plans, and I don't remember seeing sidewalks on the plan. 416 417 Amy Cole: It never appeared on any plans. We wanted it to appear on the plans, and then the discussion was that no, it was 418 never going to be on a plan. 419 420 Amy Cole: Can you speak to what segment improvement actually means? 421 422 Nish Trivedi: A segment improvement is any section of a road from one point to another point along the road, not involving 423 the intersection. 424 425 Amy Cole: Right, but what is the improvement? 426 427 Nish Trivedi: It could be a paved shoulder or improving the condition like repaving, aligning, improving curve radius within a 428 limited budget. 429 430 8 Approved 8/21/19 431 Amy Cole: A segment improvement for me and others along that area would include sidewalks rather than just a paved 432 shoulder. 433 434 Nish Trivedi: We provide recommendations on what that segment involves. 435 436 Amy Cole: In that case,when it comes to this portion of Orange Grove Road,we would like to see sidewalks. 437 438 Nish Trivedi: Sidewalks is a separate issue. There is a sidewalk that I think the department is working on, on Orange Grove 439 Road, I believe some preliminary engineering is one part but I'm not sure what the status of it is. 440 441 Nish Trivedi: Just so you know NCDOT does not build sidewalks. 442 443 Heidi Perry: Neither does Orange County. 444 445 Nish Trivedi: Someone has to build it and someone has to maintain it. 446 447 Amy Cole: When I see segment improvement and it doesn't mean sidewalk, what I don't want to happen is we spend 448 money on something that's pointless. 449 450 Brantley Wells: You could get your segment improvement and put your curb and gutter. 451 452 Nish Trivedi: It's a project the staff felt was too expensive. If it turns out it cannot be done through small source funding like 453 Spot safety, we will have to pursue it through the SPOT process. When that occurs, we will come to you for a specific 454 recommendation for that segment. Should NCDOT polices like complete streets change in the meantime, we will let you 455 know. 456 457 Heidi Perry: Can I ask a question about Efland Cedar Grove Road on page 49? Is there a reason we would want to widen 458 the lane rather than put shoulders?Widening lanes increases speed and make roads more dangerous. 459 460 Nish Trivedi: Right now, Efland-Cedar Grove Road is being considered to fix the alignment, improve curve radius, and paved 461 shoulders.Widening is not being considered right now.This is for High Impact Low Cost. 462 463 Heidi Perry: Can we change the way it's worded here because it says widen lanes by 2 feet? 464 465 Nish Trivedi: I'll go back and update them. 466 467 AGENDA ITEM 61): MPO/RPO NCDOT UPDATES(NISH TRIVEDI) 468 469 Heidi Perry:What was the thing you said that we're taking input on? 470 471 Nish Trivedi:The Human Services Coordinated Transportation Project. OCPT may still have its own. DCHC MPO has one. 472 473 Heidi Perry: Is it online? 474 475 Nish Trivedi: Yes, I'll get you a link. 476 477 AGENDA ITEM 7: INFORMATION ITEMS 478 479 AGENDA ITEM 7A: BURLINGTON-GRAHAM METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION (B-G MPO) 2045 METROPOLITAN 480 TRANSPORTATION PLAN (NISH TRIVEDI) 481 482 Ram Athavale: Is that what that memorandum is about? 483 9 Approved 8/21/19 484 Nish Trivedi: The memorandum is about the Metropolitan transition planning B-G MPO. It is describing the MTP update 485 process a 14 month process.TARPO is meeting next month and I will provide you updates at the next meeting. 486 487 AGENDA ITEM 713: NCDOT PROJECTS UNDER DEVELOPMENT(NISH TRIVEDI) 488 489 Randy Marshall: Intersection improvements as in NC 54 on page 52, are these some which have already been done or 490 some of these are yet to be done? 491 492 Nish Trivedi. Yet to be done. These are improvements that are needed along that corridor. 493 494 Randy Marshall: Well, at Dodson's Crossroads in the last several years, they've added turn lanes and traffic signals; what 495 else can they add there? 496 497 Nish Trivedi: Traffic is still increasing in that intersection. 498 499 Randy Marshall. What else can you do to improve that intersection? 500 501 Nish Trivedi: Some recommend roundabouts. 502 503 Heidi Perry. I thought they were showing super street things here? 504 505 Nish Trivedi:These are the improvements that can be done at various pieces of the intersections. 506 507 Randy Marshall: A massive realignment or reworking of the Orange Grove/54 intersection and that's on here for 508 improvements. 509 510 Nish Trivedi. I'm sorry,which one? 511 512 Randy Marshall: Orange Grove Road and 54. They just completely re-did that intersection and it's down here for additional 513 improvements. 514 515 Nish Trivedi: Orange Grove Road and NC 54 is going through operational improvements as far as the current STIP. I think 516 there's operational improvements in there. The traffic signal is already there at the intersection. I'll look back and see 517 what's going on. 518 519 AGENDA ITEM 8:ADJOURNMENT 520 521 Art Menius, Chair 10