Agenda - 04-27-2017 - 1 - Consideration of the Final Draft Durham – Orange Light Rail Cost Sharing Agreement and Final Draft Orange County Transit Plan

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37 Orange County Transit Plan April 25, 2017 goal of these analyses was to optimize existing routes using • A near-doubling of existing Saturday service, with existing resources, identify top priorities for additional transit expanded operating hours, improved service frequency, service, and determine whether projects previously identified and redesigned routes as transit priorities continue to be locally or regionally . A quadrupling of Sunday service important projects. For example, Orange County Public . Utilizing funds to supplement the increased cost of Transportation (OPT) produced a short-range transit plan that identified additional future transit priorities for rural Orange providing Chapel Hill Transit's existing services County. To date, Chapel Hill Transit has implemented 6,426 hours of new service,and has allocated the full eligible amount for the In addition, as new services funded by Tax District Revenue increased cost of existing service (for fiscal year 2018, this were introduced, the agencies evaluated the performance of translates to about 6,745 hours). these additional trips using metrics (such as ridership) to determine whether the services should be maintained or their The approximately 13,171 hours that have been implemented resources redirected to supplement other existing routes or for new or existing service thus far is lower than the anticipated new services. level of bus service proposed in the original Plan. This reduced level of service expansion versus projections included in the The cost and implementation schedule of projects proposed in Plan is due in part to the state of the agency's bus fleet, which the original Plan were, in some cases, modified due to these limits its ability to run existing buses for additional hours. The later planning efforts. The program of projects included in original Plan also assumed a lower cost per hour to operate Section 0 of this updated Plan also incorporates the results of Chapel Hill Transit service than its current rate. these additional planning efforts. Specific enhancements implemented by Chapel Hill Transit include: For service within the Town of Chapel Hill provided by Chapel Service Enhancements Initiated in Fiscal Year 2014 Hill Transit, specific goals during the first five years included: • Evening and night service on Routes CM, CW, D and J • Improving evening service on key routes by extending extended year-round, instead of only when UNC is in hours and improving frequency session • Providing additional trips on peak-period services to . Two additional evening trips added on Route F reduce overcrowding . Additional Saturday service on Routes CM, CW and JN • Improving service along US 15-501 and NC 54 Final Page 13 of 65