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On Jul 25, 2023, at 8:28 AM, Wannetta Mallette <WMallette@burlingtonnc.gov> wrote:

Good morning,

I hope you are well!

As I mentioned during your meeting a few weeks ago, the BGMPO recently kicked off its Regional Transit Feasibility Study. I am working with Nelson\Nygaard, the consulting team conducting this study. Because Saxapahaw is a key stakeholder in our region, I wanted to reach out to you to share information about the study and ask for your help getting input from a diverse group of community members.

About the Regional Transit Feasibility Study

This study is being developed by the BGMPO with support from partners at Link Transit, GoTriangle, Alamance County Transportation Authority (ACTA), Orange County Public Transportation (OCPT), and Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation (PART). The goal is to holistically evaluate existing transit service by all providers and identify equitable and innovative opportunities for improvements, including assessing multimodal connections, reducing service duplication, determining cost-effective ways to enhance service, evaluating safety performance targets and measures, and developing funding recommendations. With limited available transit funding, understanding tradeoffs and priorities for service improvements will be central to the project.

A flyer with key project information is attached and project website with more information is available here: bgmpo.org/transitstudy.

How You Can Help

We want to better understand how current transit service is working for our riders and which improvements would be most helpful to their lives. I hope you are willing to share information about the online survey and public meetings.

Online Survey

We are hosting an online survey to get broad community input. The survey will be live from July 24 to August 27. It takes about 10 minutes to complete. The survey is available at https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BGMPOTransit

Our goal is to get responses from as many community members as possible. Could you please share the attached posts announcing the transit study survey through your social media accounts to help us reach a wider audience? Post graphics, draft captions, and a QR code are included. Feel free to adjust the captions to sound more like your organization.

Community Meetings

We will also be meeting with community members to learn about their experiences with transit and ideas for future improvements. To accommodate different schedules and preferences, we will be hosting virtual and in-person sessions, which will cover the same content.

Public Meeting #1 – Virtual Meeting

Tuesday, August 22

6 – 7 pm

Zoom (online or by phone)

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Public Meeting #1 – In-Person Open House

Thursday, August 24

4 – 7 pm (drop by any time!) Formal presentation at 6 pm

Paramount Theater, 128 E Front Street, Burlington, NC 27215

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I am also available to attend any community events that you have scheduled in the next month. We will also be hosting a second round of public meetings to review draft recommendations on October 24 (virtual from 6 – 7 pm) and October 26 (in-person from 4 – 7 pm). We will follow up with more information about these events as they get closer.

Thank you for supporting our region’s transit riders by helping us spread the word about this project! If you have any questions, please let us know. You can reach out to me or Jim Baker (the consultant project manager at Nelson\Nygaard).

Thank you!

For more information, contact:

Wannetta Mallette Jim Baker

BGMPO                    Project Manager

BGMPO Nelson\Nygaard

336.513.5418 470.375.6472

wmallette@burlingtonnc.gov jbaker@nelsonnygaard.com

Wannetta Mallette, PTP

MPO Administrator

Burlington-Graham MPO

234 East Summit Avenue

PO Box 1358

Burlington, North Carolina 27215

Phone: 336-513-5418

Email: wmallette@burlingtonnc.gov

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