Agenda - 10-15-2024; 5-a - Short Range Transit Plan

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Existing Conditions ORANGE CGE OUNSIT TY The environmental justice analysis identifies Communities of Trips between Eubanks and Chapel Hill stand out during Concern based on County thresholds for the percentage of the peak commute times certain socioeconomic groups within each area. These thresholds As shown Figure 12, Saturday travel flows are slightly more locally focus on percentage of a population, rather than density, contained than weekday, and lower overall, but follow similar highlighting the presence of environmental justice communities patterns to the weekday travel flows. Strong travel flows occur in the more rural areas of the county. between: As shown in Figure 10, Communities of Concern are located E Mebane and the tracts on the western edge of Orange throughout Orange County, especially in the northwest and east, County, including the communities of Buckhorn and as well as in the denser municipalities. While the rural areas may Efland not have the density to support fixed route transit services, there are still communities that may need access to public Northeast Orange County and Hillsborough transportation. ■ Downtown Hillsborough and surrounding communities Many of the existing transit services in Orange County, operated TRAVEL FLOWS by both OCTS and GoTriangle, only operate for parts of the day. As shown in Figure 13 and Figure 14, travel patterns during the Using data from Replica that models average daily traffic patterns morning peak and mid-afternoon on weekdays differ only slightly. of trips on all modes of transportation, the following maps show general flows of travel between census tracts in Spring 2023. During the morning peak, between 7 and 9 AM, travel patterns are mostly similar to the travel flows of the full day, with strong On an average weekday, the strongest travel flows were typically trip links within Chapel Hill and Hillsborough (Figure 13). Unlike within the municipalities, with weaker flows across longer full day travel patterns, there are some stronger long-distance distances (Figure 11). Key travel flows outside the municipalities connections, including Durham to Chapel Hill and Chatham include: County to Chapel Hill. Travel flows are slightly lower during the ■ Trips to the center of Hillsborough from surrounding midday period (Figure 14) than in the morning. Mebane to areas Buckhorn continue to see strong travel flows. Trips to and from ■ Thousands of trips occur each day from the communities Durham are concentrated more in the north of Chapel Hill, rather between Mebane and Hillsborough (such as Efland and than to and from UNC. Flows on the US 70 and 1-40 corridor Buckhorn) into Mebane and Hillsborough, where much of between Hillsborough and Mebane remain strong. the previously discussed developments are located Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates 3-10