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10 1 2 Chapel Hill Transit - 3 • Additional peak trips on busiest routes 4 • Later service on two Saturday routes 5 • Continuation of evening service during former "reduced service periods 6 - Introduced 2013 7 - 1,690 annual service hours 8 • Offsetting increased cost of existing service 9 • Financing new buses 10 11 Orange Public Transit - Increasing its service incrementally over the next 5- years. 12 Approximately 2,600 additional bus hours will be provided by OPT during year one and 13 increasing to a total of 7,500 additional bus hours thereafter. The BOCC will consider 14 program specifics at its October 21 meeting, which to date include: 15 • Expanded dial -a -ride, rural general public demand response service 16 • Expanded senior center transportation 17 • Initiation of a midday (10am -3pm) local fixed -route service connecting Mebane, 18 Efland, Hillsborough and Durham 19 • Extension of the existing Route 420 midday service (currently connecting 20 Hillsborough and Chapel Hill) to Cedar Grove with more frequent service; and 21 • Continuation of the existing Hillsborough Circulator service and expansion to an 22 additional hour of service. 23 24 Carrboro — The Bus and Rail Investment Plan (BRIP) includes a new regional bus service from 25 White Cross to Carrboro to Chapel Hill Express as an "Unfunded Future Priority After Year 26 2020 ". This service is divided into the following two phases: Phase I — A new express route 27 serving Alamance County /Carrboro /Chapel Hill (via NC -54) at an hourly frequency; and Phase 28 II - A new express route serving Alamance County /Carrboro /Chapel Hill (via NC -54) at a 30- 29 minute frequency. A site for a park and ride lot would need to be identified and developed in the 30 White Cross area before this new service could be implemented. The Piedmont Authority for 31 Regional Transportation (PART) presently provides weekday service from Alamance County to 32 UNC Hospital via NC -54, which may present an opportunity to coordinate on a park and ride lot 33 as well as the services it provides with those of the other transit providers, Orange Public 34 Transit and Chapel Hill Transit. Although presently an unfunded priority, in the event that sales 35 tax revenues exceed estimates, additional funds could be made available to increase bus 36 service and meet unfunded priorities. 37 38 Craig Benedict said the light rail project is a 17 mile segment from south of UNC 39 Hospital, through Durham and downtown. He said information can be found online at 40 www.ourtransitfuture.com 41 He said the North South corridor project has received $100,000 in grant monies outside 42 of the bus and rail investment plan to study how to better move traffic and buses up and down 43 Martin Luther King Boulevard. 44 Craig Benedict said 40,000 people per day commute into Orange County, 30,000 travel 45 out, and 20,000 stay and work here. He said there is a large amount of traffic that goes down 46 Highway 54, and Piedmont Area Regional Transit (PART) presently has a route that brings 47 people from Burlington and Graham down 54, through Carrboro and Chapel Hill, into Durham. 48 He said with the new east, west routes, PART may be able to modify their service to have more 49 service to Carrboro and Chapel Hill, while handing off Durham bound passengers to the new 50 Orange Durham Express Route.