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34 <br /> Orange County Transit Plan April 25, 2017 <br /> routes and demand response service in the Chapel Hill, MPO includes local elected officials from the City of Durham, <br /> Carrboro, and University area. Chapel Hill Transit also provides Town of Chapel Hill, Town of Hillsborough, Town of Carrboro, <br /> regional express bus service to Hillsborough in cooperation Durham County, Orange County, and Chatham County. <br /> with GoTriangle. <br /> Orange County Public <br /> Transportation (OPT) is a county The original Plan was approved in 2012 by Orange County, the <br /> R NGE CO cy� agency that is responsible for DCHC MPO, and GoTriangle. Along with this Plan, Orange <br /> providing transportation services County, Durham County, and GoTriangle have approved an <br /> to all residents of unincorporated Orange County, the Town of update to the Interlocal Agreement for cost sharing (the "Cost- <br /> Hillsborough, Efland, and a portion of the City of Mebane with Sharing Agreement") that governs the division of responsibility <br /> destinations within and beyond Orange County's borders. OPT for costs associated with the D-O LRT Project, a key element of <br /> provides community transportation in unincorporated Orange the Plan which serves both counties. This supersedes the <br /> County, consisting of demand response and circulator service original cost-sharing agreement entered into by the counties in <br /> within Hillsborough (in cooperation with the Town of 2012. <br /> Hillsborough), midday service connecting Chapel Hill to <br /> Hillsborough, and to Cedar Grove in northern Orange County. On October 24, 2012, Orange County, GoTriangle and the DCHC <br /> MPO entered into an Interlocal Implementation Agreement <br /> GoTriangle is a regional transit ("Implementation Agreement") to provide for effective <br /> =_ agency serving Wake, Durham, and implementation and oversight of the transit plan. The <br /> `iqe Orange counties. GoTriangle Implementation Agreement establishes a Staff Working Group <br /> provides regional commuter express and demand response including representatives from Orange County, GoTriangle, and <br /> service connecting Wake, Durham, and Orange counties, DCHC MPO. The Staff Working Group reviews progress of Plan <br /> provides express service connecting Mebane to Hillsborough Implementation and prepare updates to the Plan at least every <br /> and the City of Durham, and manages the Durham-Orange Light four years, or due to identified changes to costs or revenues <br /> Rail Transit (D-O LRT) Project. that are significant enough to require a plan update. This Plan <br /> update is the first such update. <br /> — — The signatories to this Plan are <br /> Orange County, GoTriangle, and <br /> Planning Tomorrow Today the Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro <br /> Metropolitan Planning <br /> Organization (DCHC MPO). The governing board of the DCHC <br /> Final Page 10 of 65 <br />