A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to direct the department of TRANSPORTATION to develop a CORRIDOR plan for u.s. highway 70 from garner to morehead city that minimizes the use of STOPLIGHTS, to require the department to report on its plan to the joint legislative TRANSPORTATION oversight committee, and to urge the DEPARTMENT in the interim to not place any additional STOPLIGHTS on u.s. highway 70 from garner to morehead city unless no alternative is AVAILABLE and the stoplight is essential for safety. 
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Department of Transportation is directed to develop a traffic flow corridor plan for U.S. 70 between its intersection with Interstate 40 in Garner and where it enters the municipal limits of Morehead City. The plan shall examine traffic flow and safety on the corridor with the goals of eliminating as many stoplights as possible and increasing the safety, efficiency, and average speed of traffic movement on the corridor.  The Department shall report, on or before December 1, 2003, the results of its analysis of the corridor and its plan for improving traffic flow to the Joint Legislative Transportation Oversight Committee.
SECTION 2.  The General Assembly encourages the Department of Transportation, during the period of development of the corridor plan and report required by Section 1 of this act, to not erect any additional traffic control stoplights on U.S. 70 between its intersection with Interstate 40 in Garner and where it enters the municipal limits of Morehead City unless no alternative is available and the stoplight is essential to safety. The Department is instead urged to consider other traffic control devices or structures such as turnouts and crossovers.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.