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Approved 8/21/13 Paul Guthrie: I took an old map and drew in what is currently visible as the initial investments from this operation. A good planning process would include front end ones plus looking at potential long ones. Erik Landfried: This process will try to identify, for those funds, the county services and rural services. The other part is more detail on the east - west route. Annette Jurgelski: Mebane is partly in Alamance County. Does this involve some cooperation with that county? Erik Landfried: We will discuss it with them but the revenue source is all from Orange County. (Continued presentation.) Jeff Charles: We are going to spend all this money on the light rail system. Is part of your planning your doing going to develop the routes that will feed into the light rail? To build ridership for this $1.6 billion dollar project, what will we do for that? Erik Landfried: We are doing a separate planning effort next year on the 15 -501 corridors to beef up the bus service. We should have a meeting next year to discuss feeder service. Alex Castro: I am involved with the aging population plan, one of the things I don't see there is the primary care center being put into place by Duke and UNC. It would be nice if the transportation service providers could coordinate with the health care service providers and have a coordinating mechanism where an individual scheduling an appointment can get the transportation tied in with it. Erik Landfried: What do you envision in terms of how that would work? Alex Castro: You could have areas that people in the rural areas could get to easily which would connect to the various activities. A combination of government and volunteers would work. The big issue is coordination. Jeff Charles: There is another class which is bicycle riders. The buses need to have more facilities to carry more bicycles. Erik Landfried: Space on buses is limited. Triangle Transit just tried a three bicycle rack on the front and it did not meet our safety requirements. It is important for the counties and municipalities to think about putting bike storage at the major stops. Jeff Charles: It would be important from a PR standpoint to fend off potential questions. Jeff Miles: There is one audience that would be apt to ride transit but the convenience level isn't there for them. I ride the CRX every day but I know that it is off the table; but I feel like there are lots of people who work in downtown Raleigh. Erik Landfried: Like frequent service or providing an evening service. Absolutely. Craig Benedict: With this kind of goal setting, if we could give the public a checklist and tally to see the interest. Erik Landfried: Are there specific locations /times of day? The goal is to get people who might need the service, how do we reach those? Susie Enoch: I do live in Efland. You have three churches on 70 that are together and then one in the White Cross area. You could contact those three and suggest a meeting. Erik Landfried: Time of day? Susie Enoch: Early evening, 6:00 or 6:30.