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Planning and projections for 2018 cont'd.. <br />Potential Projects: Hillsborough Circulator II <br />Last year, OCPT was contacted by the Durham - Chapel Hill - Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization <br />(DCHC MPO) about submitting transit projects for the State Transportation Planning process referred to <br />as SPOT 5.0. <br />The Hillsborough Circulator 11 was submitted because it would provide direct connections to jobs, <br />schools, social services and other points of interests in and around Hillsborough for seniors, disabled, <br />impoverished, minority and car free communities. This route would help alleviate the capacity on the <br />Hillsborough Circulator and potentially exceed its ridership. <br />It made it through the process and had been scored favorably by the State. The MPO was charged with <br />providing priority to projects to continue in the process. OCPT was asked to remove the bus project in <br />favor of larger regional efforts. <br />This $30K project (for one 28' LTV) was removed by the DCHC MPO until a future SPOT process, which <br />may start in 2019, thereby meaning the circulator 11, if approved, would be operational by 2022. OCPT <br />will continue to seek other sources of funding to implement this route. <br />The Orange County Technical Committee representative did not vote in favor of removing the <br />Hillsborough Circulator. <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />NORTH CAROLINA 28 <br />