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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: February 15, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~-a <br />SUBJECT: Proposed Public Route between Hillsborough and Chapel Hill/Carrboro <br />DEPARTMENT: Aging/Transportation <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />A. Conceptual Route Map <br />B. Financial Detail <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Alice Gordon, County Commissioner <br />Jerry Passmare, ext 2009 <br />AI Terrv. ext. 2002 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To request that the BOCC approve a proposal to be presented to the Triangle <br />Transit Authority (TTA) Operations and Finance Committee (and later to the full TTA Board) to <br />establish a regular public route providing bus service between Hillsborough and Chapel <br />Hill/Carrboro. Orange Public Transportation (OPT) would provide matching funds and operate <br />the route under authority of a Memorandum of Understanding or contract with TTA, <br />BACKGROUND: l~l"A is the regional transit agency that provides service to urbanized areas <br />both within and between Wake, Durham, and Orange/Chapel Hill areas. With the elimination of <br />its route from Hillsborough to Durham during 2004, TTA currently does not provide any urban to <br />urban service from the northern end of Orange County. (TTA and OPT staff are of the opinion <br />that the route failed due to mismatch of the service design to the transportation needs of <br />Orange County residents.) <br />OPT established its Hillsborough to Chapel Hill/Carrboro rcute as a public shuttle to provide <br />mass transit service between the two urban areas Monday through Friday. This route is <br />currently comprised of five round trips per day for educational, social, medical, and legal needs <br />and services. <br />A conceptual route design to replace the existing OPT route design has been developed by <br />TTA and OPT staff in close consultation and cooperation aver the past several months (see <br />Attachment A). This redesigned route would be the one used for the proposed TTA <br />Hillsborough -Chapel Hill bus service. <br />OPT staff has proposed that the Board of Commissioners ask the TTA Board to consider (1) a <br />regular public route or (2) a 12-month demonstration project of the redesigned route. Of <br />