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42 <br /> Orange County Transit Plan Effective Date: April 28, 2017 <br /> discussed in Section 4.1.3, additional service to rural Orange <br /> r <br /> County is scheduled to be implemented in calendar year 2017. <br /> The original Plan set aside funds to pay for passenger transit <br /> amenities within the first three years of the Plan such as park- <br /> and-ride lots, bus shelters, passenger amenities such as real- <br /> time passenger information signs, and bus stop access <br /> improvements such as sidewalks. <br /> Since 2012, GoTriangle, Chapel Hill Transit, and OPT have between Charlotte and Raleigh twice daily in each direction. <br /> worked collaboratively with the Town of Chapel Hill, Town of Under the Piedmont Improvement Program, underway since <br /> Carrboro, UNC, and Orange County to refine the list of small 2010, the North Carolina Department of Transportation <br /> capital projects to be funded using Tax District Revenue, such anticipates operating up to five daily trips between Raleigh and <br /> as bus stop enhancements and park-and-rides. Charlotte in each direction. <br /> Bus facilities that have been implemented are: Unlike other projects and services in the Plan which are <br /> managed by the local transit agencies, the Hillsborough Train <br /> • North Hillsborough Park-and-Ride (temporary lease) Station project is managed by the North Carolina Department <br /> • Lease of spaces at Mebane Cone Health for park-and-ride of Transportation (NCDOT) Rail Division and is primarily state <br /> on Orange-Durham Express (Route ODX) funded. Since 2012, the NCDOT Rail Division has continued <br /> • Bus stop signs in Orange County planning and coordination activities to advance the project, <br /> • Pedestrian crossings at bus stops in Chapel Hill with support from the Town of Hillsborough and GoTriangle in <br /> a technical advisory capacity. <br /> 2.3 Hillsborough Train Station <br /> Identified by the NCDOT as project number P-5701, the <br /> The original Plan set aside funds to support construction of an Hillsborough Train Station is programmed for construction in <br /> intercity passenger rail station in the Town of Hillsborough.The fiscal years 2019 and 2020 in the 2016-2025 State <br /> station will be served by two Amtrak passenger train routes: Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). <br /> the Carolinian, which travels between Charlotte and New York <br /> once daily in each direction, and the Piedmont, which travels <br /> Final Page 16 of 65 <br />