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8 <br />Strategies to accomplish these goals include: <br />• Improve connectivity <br />• Increase frequency in peak hours <br />• Improve weekend, night services (off peak) <br />• Enhance existing service <br />• Maintain existing services <br />• Maintain level of local funding at no less than the August 1, 2009 spending level <br />Over the course of the plan, a new half-cent sales tax would enable delivery of a total of <br />41,000 additional bus hours in Orange County. By comparison, Chapel Hill Transit currently <br />provides 190,000 annual bus hours and Orange Public Transportation provides 12,846 annual <br />bus hours. The projects will provide benefits to all areas of the county by enhancing urban <br />and rural transit services. <br />Bus improvement projects were classified by type of service: <br />Local bus service - service operating within Orange County boundaries <br />Rural or Non-urban service- new or supplemented bus service in northern and <br />western portions of the County. <br />Regional express service - service operating in more than one county or between <br />separate urban areas <br />First Five Years followinp successful sales tax referendum <br />An investment that equals about 34,650 bus service hours will be provided during the first <br />five years. Improvements include: <br />Improve connectivity <br />• New regional service connecting Carrboro, Chapel Hill, and Durham <br />• New regional express service connecting Mebane, Hillsborough and Durham. <br />Increase frequency in peak hours <br />• Enhanced services in the US 15/501 corridor between Durham and Chapel Hill <br />for Chapel Hill Transit, Triangle Transit, and DATA. <br />• Improvements in the NC 54 corridor transit service. <br />• Increased peak hour service on Triangle Transit Route 800 between Research <br />Triangle Park and Chapel Hill. <br />• Increased peak hour service on Triangle Transit Route 420 between <br />Hillsborough and Chapel Hill. <br />Improve weekend, night services (off peak) <br />• New Saturday service on the in-town Hillsborough circulator. <br />• Expanded local Saturday service in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and UNC. <br />• Expanded regional Saturday service on existing Triangle Transit Route 405 <br />between Durham and Chapel Hill and Triangle Transit Route 800 between <br />Chapel Hill and the Research Triangle Park. <br />5/8/2012 - Page ~ 6 <br />