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4 <br /> 1 <br /> 2 E. Public Transit Element of the Plan <br /> 3 Existing Transit Service Serving the Study Area <br /> 4 Orange County Planning Comment—Additional Transit Service <br /> 5 o Enhanced bus element network : <br /> 6 • A circulator shuttle that would provide service to: <br /> 7 o Downtown Chapel Hill <br /> 8 o The UNC Campus and future Carolina North <br /> 9 • An adjusted OPT 420 bus route: <br /> 10 o Rural Orange County & Hillsborough <br /> 11 o Consider dedicated BRT lanes — as identified by Kimley Horn Traffic Analysis <br /> 12 2/18/2011, page 1.26 and 1.4 <br /> 13 o High-order Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) <br /> 14 Walkability <br /> 15 Multi-modal Aspects <br /> 16 Future bus tie-in Light Rail <br /> 17 <br /> 18 F. Planned Roadway Improvements and General Comments in the Study Area <br /> 19 Positive <br /> 20 Fordham Blvd (US 15-501) corridor is congested <br /> 21 Need for investment <br /> 22 Improvements are typically funded through DCHC-MPO <br /> 23 Some programmed <br /> 24 MPO recently (Nov. 2014) approved $2.17 million Ephesus-Fordham intersection <br /> 25 improvement which decreases $8.8 million S-TI F estimate <br /> 26 Negative <br /> 27 S-TIF or other Funding for roads is not a county function, however, participation in the <br /> 28 prioritization of MPO projects is <br /> 29 State TIP/NCDOT Collaboration <br /> 30 Positive <br /> 31 Mixed Use Project <br /> 32 Internal trip capture <br /> 33 Decrease typical external trip generation <br /> 34 Negative <br /> 35 Stronger bus transit attributes <br /> 36 Downtown/college area integration (i.e. cross town shopping) <br /> 37 <br /> 38 Recommendations <br /> 39 Building a Transit Infrastructure <br /> 40 Fund a study to review: <br /> 41 1. Circulator shuttle, <br /> 42 2. OPT 420 bus route adjustment (regional tie-in), and <br /> 43 3. Future BRT in corridor. <br /> 44 BRIP amendments to help fund above transit considerations <br /> 45 Circulator shuttle <br /> 46 <br /> 47 G. Stormwater/Flood Control Elements of the Plan <br /> 48 1. Background <br /> 49 Kimley-Horn & Associates Analysis in 201 <br /> 50 2. Specific Original Work <br /> 51 3. Original Costs Estimates <br />