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01 introduction. <br /> This document (Orange County Transit Plan Update) is the policy steering committee. <br /> product of the plan update process.The update process provided <br /> a valuable opportunity to ensure planned transit projects and <br /> investments reflect community values and meet community POLICY STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS <br /> needs and goals. Within this plan update we introduce seven <br /> new transit projects supplementing the projects in the 2012 and Member Name Title/Organization <br /> 2017 plans, and enhancing the transit service and infrastructure Sally Greene(Chair) Orange County Board of <br /> currently provided by Orange County. County Commissioners <br /> Amy Fowler(replaced Orange County Board of <br /> Service Providers Mark Marcoplos) Couloll=ommissioners <br /> Transit services in Orange County are primarily provided by Michael Parker Chapel Hill Town Council <br /> three agencies; each participates in the development and Barbara Foushee Carrboro Town Council <br /> implementation of the county's transit plans. Mark Bell Hillsborough Town <br /> Commission <br /> Montrena Hadley Mebane City Council <br /> OrangeCounty (replaced Patty Phillips) <br /> PUBLIC TRANSIT <br /> Orange County Public Transportation (OCPT) is a county A Policy • Committee <br /> agency providing fixed route and demand response community helped guide planning • • <br /> transportation services to all residents of unincorporated Orange The Committee's •- •-. <br /> County,the Town of Hillsborough, Efland, and a portion of the City elected officials <br /> • Orange • • <br /> of Mebane with destinations within and beyond Orange County's _ towns . • es County's <br /> borders. OCPT also provides circulator service within Hillsborough borders including <br /> Chapel Hill, <br /> (in cooperation with the Town of Hillsborough), midday service Mebane. <br /> _ <br /> connecting Chapel Hill to Hillsborough, and connections to Cedar Hillsborough, • •' Meetings <br /> Grove in northern Orange County. were held regularly to discuss <br /> priorities, • engagement, <br /> Chapel Hill Transit (CHT) is a multi- • .n's strategic direction, . to review <br /> p jurisdictional agency formed by a work products and proposed projects. The <br /> partnership <br /> . - <br /> partnership of the Town of Chapel Hill, consultingteam • Orange County <br /> Town of Carrboro, and the University facilitated a four-hour strategic planning <br /> of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (UNC- retreat _ <br /> rs n July 24, 2021 <br /> CH). CHT provides fare-free regular and •r PSC • • <br /> express routes and demand response in Hillsborough to reach consensuson <br /> service in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and UNC- core communityconfirm <br /> CH campus areas.CHT also provides regional express bus service goals, - • to discuss conceptual <br /> to Hillsborough in cooperation with GoTriangle. scenarios. and the project <br /> team attended the retreat in person and <br /> GoTriangle is a regional transit agency _ <br /> retreat was live-streamed on Zoom to <br /> providing regional commuter express and accommodate <br /> nts while <br /> demand response service connecting GO additional •� •� prevent <br /> Wake, Durham, and Orange counties. maintaining room ' •' limits to <br /> transmissionof • primary outcome <br /> Triangleservice <br /> addition to these three primary transit - - identification of <br /> TI" <br /> f service providers, Piedmont Authority • - - -• to identify and assess <br /> for Regional Transit(PART) also provides projects t. include in the Transit Plan <br /> longer distance service between Greensboro, NC, and UNC-CH Update. <br /> Hospitals with several stops in Alamance County. <br />