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Update on the Orange County Transit Plan
PURPOSE: The purpose of this agenda item is for the Town Council to receive a presentation on the Orange County Transit Plan (OCTP), including an update on the planning framework, process and draft recommendations for new bus operations and capital projects for preliminary feedback and comments that may inform a draft plan. Caroline Dwyer with Renaissance Planning will make the presentation.
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DEPARTMENT: Planning & Inspections
CONTACT INFORMATION: Christina Moon, Planning Administrator, 919-918-7325, cmoon@carrboronc.gov; Tom Altieri, Orange County Comprehensive Planning Supervisor, 919-245-2579, taltieri@orangecountync.gov; Caroline Dwyer, Renaissance Planning, Inc., 919-636-5032 x 401, cdwyer@citiesthatwork.com
INFORMATION: In 2012, the Orange County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) along with the Durham-Chapel Hill Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (DCHC MPO) and GoTriangle adopted Orange County's first comprehensive Transit Plan. This Plan was funded using a newly adopted Article 43 Half-Cent Sales Tax, and it included investments in new and expanded bus service and new capital infrastructure projects such as the Chapel Hill North- South Bus Rapid Transit Project, the Hillsborough Train Station, and the Durham-Orange Light Rail Transit (D-O LRT) Project. The Plan was updated in 2017 to meet federal requirements associated with the D-O LRT Project.
In March 2019, the D-O LRT Project was discontinued. This project was central to the Transit Plan; it was the Plan's primary investment, represented a critical partnership between Durham and Orange counties, and served as the transit infrastructure around which other transit services and growth strategies were planned. In response to the discontinuation of the light rail project, a staff team began the process of creating a potential planning framework to create a new Orange County Transit Plan that prioritizes investments, funds...
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