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4 <br /> DRAFT <br /> 55 <br /> 56 Theo Letman: The transit boundaries as well as the MPO boundaries are not drawn by the County;you have some overlaps. <br /> 57 For the Burlington-Graham MPO area, for example, we get funds from them even though they're service area is <br /> 58 predominately Burlington and Mebane. <br /> 59 <br /> 60 Randy Marshall: On the first map you have 6:30-9:30. Is that 9:30 a.m.? Does that mean you just run it three times? <br /> 61 <br /> 62 Teleishia Holloway:Yes,just during peak hours. <br /> 63 <br /> 64 Randy Marshall: How do people get home? <br /> 65 <br /> 66 Teleishia Holloway: That's the research that we'll have to do. We were thinking of connecting to the ODX on the way back <br /> 67 home in the evening. <br /> 68 <br /> 69 Theo Letman:There are other services that are currently run in the evening, and we're just trying to give a more direct route. <br /> 70 <br /> 71 Randy Marshall:And people who are doing this would be fully aware of what options are available? <br /> 72 <br /> 73 Theo Letman: The long-range transit planning process with Nelson Nygaard, they did. We gave out surveys as well and got <br /> 74 a prioritization list of all the top routes that people said they wanted to have. <br /> 75 <br /> 76 Lisa Berkley:Will there be more than one stop in Cedar Grove? <br /> 77 <br /> 78 Theo Letman: The community center is probably the best place for our buses because we have a parking lot and we have a <br /> 79 bus shelter there. <br /> 80 <br /> 81 Randy Marshall:At some point you'll have ridership numbers? <br /> 82 <br /> 83 Theo Letman:Yes. <br /> 84 <br /> 85 Donna Musson: Into our park and ride lot here in Hillsborough coming from the country to Durham? <br /> 86 <br /> 87 Theo Letman: It's already in the works to have a park and ride lot in Hillsborough. We already know that the Maxway <br /> 88 shopping area does not allow any of your transit connections to be there, so we looked on the Highway 70 corridor, at the <br /> 89 Credit Union parking lot or somewhere else in that corridor. <br /> 90 <br /> 91 Nish Trivedi:That's something GoTriangle is doing. <br /> 92 <br /> 93 Amy Cole: What is the culture behind people not wanting transit to enter into their business area? <br /> 94 <br /> 95 Theo Letman: Some jurisdictions favor transit and want the traffic, others don't. They feel like our buses going on to a <br /> 96 private parking area would tear up their pavement. They would have the reinforce their parking lot at a cost, or the <br /> 97 commuters are taking up their parking spots for their shoppers. <br /> 98 <br /> 99 Lisa Berkley:There'll be some new stops? <br /> 100 <br /> 101 Theo Letman: Sure, and if there's a preference to where we get interest when we present this, we can modify this. <br /> 102 <br /> 103 David Laudicina: In regard to The Orange-Chapel Hill connector route that is already in existence, are you going to be <br /> 104 adding any stops on that? <br /> 105 <br /> 106 Theo Letman: Some of the work we do at the MPO level is to support our services better. <br /> 107 <br /> 108 Ram Athavale: Can you give me a sense of the construction and type of buses, how big? Are they state-of-the-art, hybrid? <br /> 2 <br />