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23 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> NORTH CAROLINA <br /> ORANGE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ADA PARATRANSIT PLAN <br /> Senior Center Transportation: <br /> Through agreement with the Orange County Department on Aging, OPT provides daily <br /> transportation (Monday-Friday) to two (2) Orange County senior centers. The service is <br /> funded using Home and Community Care Block Grant (HCCBG) funding appropriated to the <br /> Department on Aging and is provided at no cost to seniors electing to use the service. The <br /> service is provided on a subscription, point deviation basis in which standing reservations <br /> for pick-ups at residences and drop-offs at senior centers are maintained by patrons. <br /> Routes are structured to efficiently collect clients for a shared ride to the senior centers. The <br /> service currently involves the provision of door-to-door assistance by vehicle operators for <br /> persons who lack the independent ability to access the vehicle from the street. The vehicles <br /> used to provide the service are 100% accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities. <br /> The vehicles are equipped with electric wheelchair lifts. <br /> General Public Demand-Response Transportation: <br /> General public demand-responsive, point deviation service is provided to persons <br /> throughout Orange County who request pick-ups outside the Chapel Hill Transit service <br /> area. These services are funded using Rural Operating Assistance (ROAP) funding <br /> appropriated to Orange County by the State and supplemented by user fares and the <br /> County's general operating fund. The service is provided for any trip purpose and involves a <br /> $12.75 fare each way. Pick-ups and drop-offs for users are intermingled with those for users <br /> of other specialized services throughout the county, and routes are structured to efficiently <br /> collect users for a shared ride, in many cases with users of other services, to any <br /> destination within the County. Advance reservations for the service are required to be made <br /> two (2) business days in advance. The service currently involves the provision of door-to- <br /> door assistance by vehicle operators for persons who lack the independent ability to access <br /> the vehicle from the street, and the vehicles used to provide the service are 100% <br /> accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities. The vehicles are equipped with <br /> electric wheelchair lifts. <br /> Fixed-Route Transportation: <br /> ADA paratransit service for OPT's fixed routes is provided through a combination of <br /> separate ADA dial-a-ride complementary service and deviation of regular fixed-route <br /> vehicles for ADA-eligible scheduled pick-ups and drop-offs within 3/4-mile of the fixed-route <br /> corridors served depending on which method can most efficiently and effectively be <br /> dispatched to serve the requested trip without compromising the rights of the ADA-eligible <br /> user and the timing and service integrity associated with fixed-route service. The 3/4-mile <br /> buffer surrounding OPT's existing fixed-route bus service corridors within which OPT is <br /> responsible for providing ADA paratransit service is depicted in Exhibit 4. <br /> While OPT is still responsible for providing ADA paratransit service within 3/4-mile of its <br /> fixed-route bus service corridor that overlaps Chapel Hill Transit's %-mile bus service <br /> corridors during the same days and hours the fixed-route service is provided, OPT does not <br /> typically receive requests to provide the service because Chapel Hill Transit provides the <br /> 5 <br />