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15 <br /> 1 Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization's preparation of a new Metropolitan <br /> 2 Transportation Plan. <br /> 3 <br /> 4 Accomplishments <br /> 5 During the year, the following service enhancements were funded with transit tax <br /> 6 dollars: <br /> 7 • Chapel Hill Transit expanded peak period and mid-day service on Routes A, D, J <br /> 8 and NS <br /> 9 • Chapel Hill Transit expanded Saturday hours on the FG and D Routes <br /> 10 • New GoTriangle commuter express service (Route ODX) from Mebane, Efland, <br /> 11 and Hillsborough to Duke and VA Medical Centers and downtown Durham <br /> 12 • Later Saturday evening and Sunday service on GoTriangle routes connecting <br /> 13 Durham, Chapel Hill and RTP (Routes 400, 700, and 800), also with Route 100 <br /> 14 to RDU Airport and Raleigh (Route 100 is funded by a separate source, not <br /> 15 Orange County funds) <br /> 16 <br /> 17 Chapel Hill North-South Bus Project <br /> 18 Chapel Hill Transit is conducting the North South Corridor Study along Martin Luther <br /> 19 King Jr. Boulevard — South Columbia — US 15-501 South Corridor. The study is funded <br /> 20 by a federal grant, which is not part of the Transit Plan. The Transit Plan does include a <br /> 21 25% local match ($24.5 million) set aside for capital improvements, if this project moves <br /> 22 to construction in the future. <br /> 23 <br /> 24 John Tallmadge said this is now in the evaluation phase and looking at alternatives; no <br /> 25 funding has been expended yet. <br /> 26 <br /> 27 Hillsborough Train Station <br /> 28 Planning on the Hillsborough Train Station is being led by the NCDOT Rail Division. <br /> 29 Construction funding for the Hillsborough Train Station is scheduled to be available in <br /> 30 FY 2019 and FY 2020, with $3.6 million per year provided by the N.C. Department of <br /> 31 Transportation and GoTriangle. <br /> 32 <br /> 33 The station will be served by two Amtrak passenger train routes that already pass <br /> 34 through Hillsborough —the Carolinian, which travels between Charlotte and New York <br /> 35 twice daily, and the Piedmont, which makes travels between Charlotte and Raleigh four <br /> 36 times daily <br /> 37 <br /> 38 Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit Project <br /> 39 During the year, GoTriangle continued work on the proposed 17-mile Durham-Orange <br /> 40 Light Rail Transit Project. The proposed light rail line will run from Chapel Hill to East <br /> 41 Durham, serve UNC Hospitals and UNC, the Friday Center, Patterson Place, Duke <br /> 42 University, Duke University Medical Center, the VA Medical Center, downtown Durham, <br /> 43 and East Durham. <br /> 44 <br /> 45 Environmental work underway will lead to a Draft Environmental Impact Statement in <br /> 46 the fall of 2015 (FY16) and a Final Environmental Impact Statement/Record of Decision <br /> 47 in early calendar year 2016. <br /> 48 <br />