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i <br /> • • Maintain existing services. <br /> Over the course of the plan, a new half-cent sales tax would enable delivery of a total of <br /> 50,000 additional bus hours in Orange County. By comparison, Chapel Hill Transit currently <br /> provides 190,000 annual bus hours and Orange Public Transportation provides 3,525 annual <br /> bus hours.The projects will provide benefits to all areas of the county by enhancing urban <br /> and rural transit services. <br /> Bus improvement projects were classified by type of service: <br /> • Local bus service-service operating within Orange County boundaries <br /> • Regional bus service-service operating in more than one county <br /> • Regional express service-over the road coaches operating in more than one county <br /> First Three Years following successful sales tax referendum <br /> An investment that equals about 44,000 bus service hours will be provided during the first <br /> three years. Improvements include: <br /> • Improve connectivity <br /> • New regional express service connecting Mebane, Hillsborough and Durham. <br /> • Increase frequency in peak hours <br /> • Enhanced services in the US 15/501 corridor between Durham and Chapel Hill <br /> for Chapel Hill Transit,Triangle Transit, and DATA. <br /> . • Improvements in the NC 54 corridor transit service. <br /> • Increased peak hour service on the existing Triangle Transit Route 405 <br /> between Chapel Hill and Durham. <br /> • Increased peak hour service on the in-town Hillsborough circulator. <br /> • Increased peak hour service on Triangle Transit Route 800 between Research <br /> Triangle Park and Chapel Hill and Triangle Transit Route 420 between <br /> Hillsborough and Chapel Hill. <br /> • Improve weekend, night services (off peak) <br /> • New Saturday service on the in-town Hillsborough circulator. <br /> • Expanded local Saturday service in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and UNC. <br /> • Expanded regional Saturday service on existing Triangle Transit Route 405 <br /> between Durham and Chapel Hill and Triangle Transit Route 800 between <br /> Chapel Hill and the Research Triangle Park. <br /> • New local Sunday service in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and UNC. <br /> • Expanded local evening service in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and UNC. <br /> • Fill in gaps in existing service <br /> • Enhanced rural transit service in unincorporated Orange County. <br /> • Maintain existing services. <br /> • A portion of revenues generated by the new vehicle registration fee will be <br /> used to support existing bus service. <br /> • <br /> 5/26/2011-Page 6 <br />