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39 <br /> Orange County Transit Plan April 25, 2017 <br /> Service Enhancements Initiated in Fiscal Year 2016 <br /> • Additional service on the Chapel Hill-Raleigh Express Orange County Public Transportation's (OPT's) goal was to <br /> service (Route CRX) during peak commute times enhance the level of service provided in unincorporated Orange <br /> County. In addition, Tax District Revenues were planned to be <br /> Service Enhancements Initiated in Fiscal Year 2017 used to continue weekday hourly service on the in-town <br /> • Extension to Carrboro on Chapel Hill-Durham regional Hillsborough circulator. <br /> route (Route 405) during peak commute times To date, OPT has implemented an annual increase of 4,500 <br /> • Reduced travel time and more frequent service for core hours of bus service.The total is higher than anticipated in part <br /> route between Chapel Hill and Durham (Route 400), with because the original Plan allocated bus hours on the basis of an <br /> buses scheduled every 30 minutes in the middle of each average cost of service among the three agencies. Due to its <br /> weekday and on Saturdays, up from every 60 minutes. smaller vehicles and the lower overhead costs of a small transit <br /> agency, OPT's hourly costs are lower.Thus the number of hours <br /> These implemented projects represent almost all of the OPT could provide in the 2012 Plan for the same amount of <br /> regional service improvements pledged to be introduced revenue was 6,887 hours, depending on federal and state <br /> during the first five years of the original Plan. The following funding assumptions. <br /> service has not been implemented and will be evaluated as part <br /> of an upcoming five-year transit planning effort: In 2016, Orange County instated OPT as its own department in <br /> County government to focus on transit services and appointed <br /> • Route 405 with service to Carrboro only runs every thirty the department's first director. <br /> minutes during peak times (vs. the 15 minute frequency <br /> anticipated in the original Plan) and does not run midday. OPT has implemented the following service enhancements: <br /> One improvement listed as a future priority in the original Plan • Continued service of the Hillsborough Circulator <br /> is intended to be implemented this year;30-minute midday and (previously funded using a time-limited federal grant) <br /> Saturday service along Route 800 between RTP and Chapel Hill • New midday service between Hillsborough and Chapel <br /> via Southpoint. In addition, OPT has introduced midday service Hill on the Cedar Grove-Hillsborough-Chapel Hill Midday <br /> between Hillsborough and Chapel Hill, complementing Connector (implemented in fiscal year 2016) <br /> GoTriangle Route 420 which runs during peak commute hours. <br /> To date, OPT has not introduced Saturday service to the <br /> Hillsborough Circulator, as expected in the original Plan. As <br /> Final Page 15 of 65 <br />