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6 ATTACHMENT 1: Summary of Public Outreach Results shopping, dining, visiting Poet's Walk at Ayr Park or the trails at the Historic Occonnochee Speedway Trace, or whatever." • "I work with Orange Co. Head Start at Fairview Child & Family Center. We serve low- income families from all over Hillsborough and rural parts of Orange county, and routinely see lack of adequate transportation as a primary reason needy families are not able to take advantage of our free, high quality early childhood and family support program. Bus service from areas in Efland/Mebane, Cedar Grove, and the Eastern parts of the county where low income housing is clumped would enable some of these young families to more consistently get to Hillsborough to take advantage of programs like ours, and hopefully get, get to, and keep jobs that aren't available in those rural areas." • "I also support making a connection from Mebane to Hillsborough." • "I would like very much to be able to take a fare free bus from home to work. I hope there will be bus stops along 86 (north of 1-40), at the ends of the neighborhoods on 86 so people can get on from home without driving to a park and ride. Stops would need to be plentiful - near enough to walk to, but not blocked from neighborhoods by structures one can't walk past, such as the bridge across New Hope Creek." • "My home is in Efland, and I have always wanted to ride the bus (instead of drive) into Hillsborough and Mebane. I attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, so I ride the 420 bus to Hillsborough and have to get someone to pick me up in Hillsborough, so I am excited about the expanded 420 route and the Hillsborough to Efland route so that I can easily commute between Mebane, Efland, Hillsborough, and Chapel Hill. I have been waiting for these bus services for many years. Thank you!" • "I think it's horrible that people who pay taxes do not have public transport to do the simplest but most important tasks, such as grocery shopping, Doctor appts, school & church. Everybody in Mebane should be able to get to the Lowe's/CVS strip &/or Walmart Center for dinner or shopping without having to own & maintain a car." • "As a freelancer who works from home without a car, with meetings in CH and Carrboro, I highly support additional times in morning/early afternoon and more destinations. Would love if services for TTA and OPT not fare-free, to have a unified pass to easily swtich between services. (so connecting the services would be great). With senior parents, support all efforts to expand times/routes for them. Possibility of stops to Raleigh? Thanks!"