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• Additional frequency between Southpoint Mall and UNC - Continuation of August 2013 implementation - 1,228 annual service hours in Orange County Chapel Hill Transit - • Additional peak trips on busiest routes • Later service on two Saturday routes • Continuation of evening service during former "reduced service periods - Introduced 2013 - 1,690 annual service hours • Offsetting increased cost of existing service • Financing new buses Orange Public Transit - Increasing its service incrementally over the next 5-years. Approximately 2,600 additional bus hours will be provided by OPT during year one and increasing to a total of 7,500 additional bus hours thereafter. The BOCC will consider program specifics at its October 21 meeting, which to date include: • Expanded dial-a-ride, rural general public demand response service • Expanded senior center transportation • Initiation of a midday (10am-3pm) local fixed-route service connecting Mebane, Efland, Hillsborough and Durham • Extension of the existing Route 420 midday service (currently connecting Hillsborough and Chapel Hill) to Cedar Grove with more frequent service; and • Continuation of the existing Hillsborough Circulator service and expansion to an additional hour of service. Carrboro —The Bus and Rail Investment Plan (BRIP) includes a new regional bus service from White Cross to Carrboro to Chapel Hill Express as an "Unfunded Future Priority After Year 2020". This service is divided into the following two phases: Phase I —A new express route serving Alamance County/Carrboro/Chapel Hill (via NC-54) at an hourly frequency; and Phase II -A new express route serving Alamance County/Carrboro/Chapel Hill (via NC-54) at a 30- minute frequency. A site for a park and ride lot would need to be identified and developed in the White Cross area before this new service could be implemented. The Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation (PART) presently provides weekday service from Alamance County to UNC Hospital via NC-54, which may present an opportunity to coordinate on a park and ride lot as well as the services it provides with those of the other transit providers, Orange Public Transit and Chapel Hill Transit. Although presently an unfunded priority, in the event that sales tax revenues exceed estimates, additional funds could be made available to increase bus service and meet unfunded priorities. Craig Benedict said the light rail project is a 17 mile segment from south of UNC Hospital, through Durham and downtown. He said information can be found online at www.ourtransitfuture.com He said the North South corridor project has received $100,000 in grant monies outside of the bus and rail investment plan to study how to better move traffic and buses up and down Martin Luther King Boulevard. Craig Benedict said 40,000 people per day commute into Orange County, 30,000 travel out, and 20,000 stay and work here. He said there is a large amount of traffic that goes down Highway 54, and Piedmont Area Regional Transit (PART) presently has a route that brings people from Burlington and Graham down 54, through Carrboro and Chapel Hill, into Durham.