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Receive Update on Short Range Transit Plan.
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Staff:
Department:
Brian M. Litchfield, Director
Transit
Nick Pittman, Planning Manager
Overview: Chapel Hill Transit developed a Draft Short-Range Transit Plan (SRTP) to serve as a roadmap for the future, position the system for continued financial and operational success, and to improve service and manage demand. Tonight we will provide an overview of the SRTP and present the Plan's Preferred Alternative that the Chapel Hill Transit Partners Committee has recommended after three years of customer/community engagement. The Preferred Alternative is a fiscally-constrained (cost neutral) service plan that was developed by the Transit Partners Committee to address operational issues and to respond to our service area's future development. The Preferred Alternative was developed using industry standard best practices for route design and also meets the project goals established by the Chapel Hill Transit Partners Committee, including:
* Develop high frequency corridors
* Equity
* Provide Sunday service
* Increase ridership
* Sustainability
Recommendation(s):
That the Council receive the update and provide direction to staff.
Plan Background and Overview:
The development of the SRTP started in 2017 and included a detailed system analysis (https://www.townofchapelhill.org/home/showdocument?id=37924) that informed the development of the Preferred Alternative for the system along with community/customer engagement efforts, and advisory board input from Chapel Hill's Building Integrated Communities (BIC) steering committee and Transportation and Connectivity Advisory Board and Carrboro's Transportation Advisory Board.
At the outset of the planning process, a Technical Committee and a Policy Committee were established by the Partners Committee to allow for in-depth discussion, informed decision-making on the part of Chapel Hill Transit's Partners Committee, and to develop a fiscally constrained service pla...
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