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7 <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />NORTH CAROLINA. <br />ORANGE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ADA PARATRANSIT PLAN <br />Senior Center Transportation: <br />Through agreement with the Orange County Department on Aging, OPT provides daily <br />transportation (Monday- Friday) to two (2) Orange County senior centers. The service is <br />funded using Home and Community Care Block Grant (HCCBG) funding appropriated to the <br />Department on Aging and is provided at no cost to seniors electing to use the service. The <br />service is provided on a subscription, point deviation basis in which standing reservations <br />for pick -ups at residences and drop -offs at senior centers are maintained by patrons. <br />Routes are structured to efficiently collect clients for a shared ride to the senior centers. The <br />service currently involves the provision of door -to -door assistance by vehicle operators for <br />persons who lack the independent ability to access the vehicle from the street. The vehicles <br />used to provide the service are 100% accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities. <br />The vehicles are equipped with electric wheelchair lifts. <br />General Public Demand - Response Transportation: <br />General public demand - responsive, point deviation service is provided to persons <br />throughout Orange County who request pick -ups outside the Chapel Hill Transit service <br />area. These services are funded using Rural Operating Assistance (ROAP) funding <br />appropriated to Orange County by the State and supplemented by user fares and the <br />County's general operating fund. The service is provided for any trip purpose and involves a <br />$12.75 fare each way. Pick -ups and drop -offs for users are intermingled with those for users <br />of other specialized services throughout the county, and routes are structured to efficiently <br />collect users for a shared ride, in many cases with users of other services, to any <br />destination within the County. Advance reservations for the service are required to be made <br />two (2) business days in advance. The service currently involves the provision of door -to- <br />door assistance by vehicle operators for persons who lack the independent ability to access <br />the vehicle from the street, and the vehicles used to provide the service are 100% <br />accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities. The vehicles are equipped with <br />electric wheelchair lifts. <br />Fixed -Route Transportation: <br />ADA paratransit service for OPT's fixed routes is provided through a combination of <br />separate ADA dial -a -ride complementary service and deviation of regular fixed -route <br />vehicles for ADA - eligible scheduled pick -ups and drop -offs within 3/4 -mile of the fixed -route <br />corridors served depending on which method can most efficiently and effectively be <br />dispatched to serve the requested trip without compromising the rights of the ADA - eligible <br />user and the timing and service integrity associated with fixed -route service. The 3/4 -mile <br />buffer surrounding OPT's existing fixed -route bus service corridors within which OPT is <br />responsible for providing ADA paratransit service is depicted in Exhibit 4. <br />While OPT is still responsible for providing ADA paratransit service within 3/4 -mile of its <br />fixed -route bus service corridor that overlaps Chapel Hill Transit's 3/4 -mile bus service <br />corridors during the same days and hours the fixed -route service is provided, OPT does not <br />typically receive requests to provide the service because Chapel Hill Transit provides the <br />5 <br />