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225 Nish Trivedi showed amap indicating nodes. He shared a partial list of the shareholder group, which has 100 entities 226 on it. Committee members suggested adding Orange County Parks and Recreationand the Town of Carrboro if 227 they’re not on the list.Nish pointed out they were and the list continues to grow. 228 229 NishTrivedi shared the project website, which is nc54west.com. He reviewed that there is an interactive map on that 230 website where people can leave comments. 231 232 Heidi Perry asked if all the regional transit groupsare included on the shareholders list.Nish Trivedi answered yes. 233 234 Alex Castro said Alamance County used to run a commuter bus from Burlington to UNC. He thought they used to 235 park it and run it backfor the reverse commute and he asked whether it is still running. Heidi Perry answeredthere 236 are at least four runs at each peak. Abigaile Pittman said she can get information on that. 237 238 Alex Castro said he lives along this corridor,near Saxapahaw. He said there is reverse trafficas well. In the 239 afternoon, there is eastbound traffic instead of just westbound. Nish Trivedi said it was a conclusion of the study that240 the nodes at the ends are generating the traffic rather than the corridor generating the traffic. 241 242 Art Menius said it’s almost a one-to-oneexchange of people going to work in Orange and Alamancecounties. 243 244 Heidi Perry asked if astudy has been done to determine where bus routes could be added. Nish Trivedi answeredas 245 staff we have made sure transit is included as an important element in the plan. It wasalso brought up aspart of the 246 workshops, which took place in Orange County, Graham and Carrboro(one in each location).247 248 Heidi Perry asked how many people cameto the workshops.Nish Trivedi answered 21inGraham, more than 35 in 249 Orange County,and he did not have the Carrboro number with him. Heidi Perry said less than 100 people are 250 making a decision about a road that has somany people on it. 251 252 Alex Castro said UNC Healthcareworkers have different hours. He asked how many there are and when are they 253 comingto work.He and Heidi Perry advocated for getting that information. 254 255 Heidi Perrysuggested If people along the corridor are trying to go from one end to the other, maybe a transportation 256 service can be provided.257 258 Alex Castro said traffic counts reflect vehicle counts. Alex Castro said it’s his observation that during peaktraffic 259 times 90 percent of the vehicles have single occupants.260 261 Art Menius, reading off the web, said that 1,129 UNC employees live in AlamanceCounty, which is a little under 10 262 percent.263 264 NishTrivedinotedthe corridor itself is convenient to Chatham County and Raleigh. He thenreviewed a list of public 265 workshops. The next workshops will take place in early May and will give the public an opportunity to comment on 266 the consultant’s recommendations. 267 268 Alex Castro asked how the public isbeing informed of these meetings. NishTrivedi answeredthe consultant firm 269 conducting the corridor study gave Orange County a press release to put on the web. The firm connected with the 270 county communications director to broadcast in newsletters two weeks before the meeting, the week before, and the 271 day before. 272 273 Heidi Perry and Alex Castro asked if it was advertised at UNC. Nish Trivedi answered that he was not sure but 274 everyone onthe stakeholder list was given the information.He will follow up by asking how UNC was involved. 275 276 NishTrivedireviewed that the draft plan will be done by September. 277 278 Alex Castro asked if traffic counting was ongoing. Nish Trivedi said he thinks most of the traffic counting wasdone on 279 weekdays and some on weekends. 280 7