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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 19, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. q-~j <br />SUBJECT: Resolution on Participation in the Proposed Regional Transportation <br />Development Plan (RTDP) <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />A. Resolution <br />B. Draft RTDP <br />C, Summary of Triangle CTIPs <br />D, Minutes <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Moses Garey, Chair, BOCC <br />John Link, County Manager, ext. 2300 <br />Gwen Harvey, Assistant County <br />Manager, ext. 2307 <br />Karen Lincoln, Transportation Planner, <br />ext. 2594 <br />AI Terry, Orange Public Transportation, <br />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 consider participation in a study, filly funded by the North Carolina Department <br />of Transportation (NCDOT), tc prepare a Regional Community Transportation Development <br />Plan (RTDP) that will examine opportunities to better coordinate and possibly consolidate <br />community transportation programs such as Orange Public Transportation (OPT) across the <br />three counties -Durham, Orange, and Wake, <br />BACKGROUND: The Triangle County Board Chairs met on March 22, 2005 and received a <br />presentation from Miriam Perry, Director, Public Transportation Division of NCDOT, and <br />Sanford Cross, Triangle .l staff support to the Rural Planning Organization (RPO), on <br />community transportation systems in the Triangle counties and a proposed "transportation <br />services study". NCDOT is interested in regionalization of community transportation systems <br />like Orange Public Transportation (OPT) -the countywide, traditionally human service agency- <br />ariented systems that are separate from the urban systems such as Durham Area Transit <br />Authority (DATA) in Durham or Capital Area Transit (CAT) in Raleigh. According to NCDOT, <br />with separate systems, unused funds from any community system revert to the State, but a <br />regional system could result in savings that stay within a region. The proposed study would <br />build on the previous Community Transportation Improvement Plan (CTIP) for each county. <br />(Note: The Orange County CTIP conducted by Wilbur Smith and Associates found OPT be one <br />of the mare efficient community transportation systems in the state, CTIP findings have also <br />