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8 • Enhance existing service • Maintain existing services • Maintain level of local funding at no less than the August 1,2009 spending level Over the course of the plan,a new half-cent sales tax would enable delivery of a total of 40,950 additional bus hours in Orange County. By comparison,Chapel Hill Transit currently provides 190,000 annual bus hours and Orange Public Transportation provides approximately 13,000 annual bus hours.The projects will provide benefits to all areas of the county by enhancing urban and rural transit services. Bus improvement projects were classified by type of service: • Local bus service-service operating within Orange County boundaries • Rural or Non-urban service-new or supplemented bus service in northern and western portions of the County. • Regional service-service operating in more than one county or between separate urban areas.Note:Costs and expenses for regional bus services traveling between Durham and Orange counties are shared on a 50-50 basis by Durham and Orange counties in this Plan. First Five Years followina successful sales tax referendum An investment that equals about 34,650 bus service hours will be provided during the first five years. Improvements will include: Improve connectivity • New regional service connecting Carrboro,Chapel Hill,and Durham • New regional express service connecting Mebane,Hillsborough and Durham Increase frequency in peak hours • Enhanced services in the US 15/501 corridor between Durham and Chapel Hill for Chapel Hill Transit,Triangle Transit,and DATA • Improvements in the NC 54 corridor transit service • Increased peak hour service on Triangle Transit Route 800 between Research Triangle Park and Chapel Hill • Increased peak hour service on Triangle Transit Route 420 between Hillsborough and Chapel Hill Improve weekend,night services(off peak) • New Saturday service on the in-town Hillsborough circulator • Expanded local Saturday service in Chapel Hill,Carrboro and UNC • Expanded regional Saturday service on existing Triangle Transit Route 405 between Durham and Chapel Hill and Triangle Transit Route 800 between Chapel Hill and the Research Triangle Park • Expanded regional Sunday service on existing Triangle Transit Route 405 between Durham and Chapel Hill and Triangle Transit Route 800 between Chapel Hill and the Research Triangle Park • New local Sunday service in Chapel Hill,Carrboro and UNC • Expanded local evening service in Chapel Hill,Carrboro and UNC ":b/:3�/�G��-Page � 6