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S operated to bring seniors to the senior centers and nutrition sites in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, Hillsborough, Efland, and Cedar Grove have seats available for public passengers. All routes with public seating operate on a deviated fixed route schedule. With advance notice, the OPT Dispatcher can approve and arrange for apick-up with route deviations made up to 1/4 mile for disabled persons or subscription riders. Also, public riders can be picked up at identified stops along the route with no advance notice. The approved fare structure for public riders on OPT vehicles is as follows: In Town $ .50 Between Towns $1.00 Youth 6-17 Yeazs 1/2 fare Children Ride free when accompanied by adult The fully allocated cost of $4.65 per trip was determined by dividing the personnel ($25,972) and vehicle operations cost ($19,278) by the number of trips provided on the North/South Orange Express public shuttle last fiscal yeaz (9,740). Of the $4.65 per trip, 90% ($4.1$) is eligible for reimbursement from Rural General Public funds, up to the Orange County allocation maximum of $22,743. Improved marketing the rural general public transportation service is the critical element to its success. The OPT Public Transportation Program is taking the following steps to accomplish this goal: 1. Continue to label all new vehicles and re-label any old OPT vehicles woth the new direct telephone line for service (245-2000). 2. Continue to post routes and schedules in public places. 3. Publicize public routes in the News of Orange newspaper and place the OPT public service placed in the Chapel Hill Transit schedule with a distribution of S0, 000) 4. Continue to replace OPT public bus stop signs. S. Distribute a new OPT brochure 6. Print new updated Public Shuttle Schedule for FY2001 both in English and Spanish. . 7. Complete the.purchase of uniforms for OPT drivers operating the public routes. FN.-H~FY2001AP~ROAP2001 ap.doc 3