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Approved 10/16/19 163 164 Todd Jones: Is this to address the issue of a lack of consistent availability for transportation in Hillsborough? 165 166 Theo Letman: In general, it's a fresh look at a fresh service that's going on across the country. Other communities have a 167 strong presence of Uber/Lyft but not so much here North Carolina. I think by public perspective more transit agencies are 168 going to this model. Some have even replaced their paratransit services with Uber/Lyft style services, mobility on demand. 169 170 Lisa Berley: I would like to highlight that it's a way of people getting out of going into another County, maybe to Alamance or 171 Durham where the other local transportation services don't necessarily get you across there. 172 173 Theo Letman: In our region,we need to have better coordination with linking up our services. 174 175 Lisa Berley: I am imagining that you can get a ride to outside of the county. 176 177 Theo Letman: We probably won't go deep into Alamance County. 178 179 Lisa Berley: Not deep but to help people who are living near that border. 180 181 Theo Letman: Transportation services are to serve all people and it should never be looked down upon. I think providing 182 this service gets us away from that kind of stigma that had it been associated with the service. Providing a service that 183 meets the growing need will be very helpful. 184 185 Alyson West: What is the specific safety training the new drivers will go through to handle bicyclists and pedestrians on the 186 road and how they interact with them? 187 188 Theo Letman: We will keep up the standard of safety training. We have several defensive driving systems that are 189 nationally recognized that we take the staff through. We will also have our drivers take a cone course. This will include 190 EMS folks and any other admin folks who drive County vehicles. 191 192 Erik Broo: Is there any effort to put some device on the bus that measures G-forces or steering and breaking inputs to 193 determine the severity of them to determine if a driver should be flagged for retraining? 194 195 Theo Letman: We do take our drivers to regular training and retraining. We emphasize their handling of the vehicle. There 196 are devices and systems that we can deploy on our vehicles that can monitor that. Telemetry is something that we might 197 look at we upgrade our surveillance systems. 198 199 AGENDA ITEM 4C: OCPT ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATES(THEO LETMAN)— 200 Theo Letman gave updates on the department's transit projects. 201 202 AGENDA ITEM 41): TRANSIT ADVISORY SERVICES(TAS)COMMENTS/QUESTIONS(THEO LETMAN)- 203 Theo Letman asked if any TAS members had any additional questions or comments 204 205 AGENDA ITEM 5: REGULAR OUTBOARD AGENDA 206 207 AGENDA ITEM 5A: BICYCLE SAFETY IMPLEMENTATION SUBCOMMITTEE(BSIS) RECOMMENDATION ON FUTURE HANDLING OF 208 BICYCLE SAFETY IMPLEMENTATION(NISH TRIVEDI) 209 210 Heidi Perry: How regular will the updates be? 211 212 Nish Trivedi: The recommendation was no more meetings and to have this done at the regular OUTBoard meetings. 213 214 Todd Jones: We may want to make sure that's part the recruitment and selection criteria for board members is to make sure 215 there is some cycling, pedestrians, and any other alternate forms of transportation representation. If the composition of that 216 element is lost, there may not be the same emphasis on alternative forms of transportation that this recommendation 4