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In Chapel Hill. 3 dated events, 1974–2004.
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Books, articles, records and pictures in the index about Chapel Hill Transit, found by its names in titles, catalog subjects and the index’s descriptions, and read one by one. Those held at OCPL come first.
Update to the Town of Chapel Hill's transit development program, covering 1981 through 1986 and published by the town in 1981. It sets out local transit and transportation planning for those years.
The Town of Chapel Hill's transit development plan for 1979 through 1984, dated July 1979 on the cover and published by the town. It covers buses, Chapel Hill Transit and local transit planning.
Survey report on how riders and residents viewed the Chapel Hill bus system, prepared by Gorman Gilbert and James F. Foerster for the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina in 1975. The final report of a transit evaluation project, and it deals with public opinion on bus lines in Chapel Hill.
Feasibility study for public mass transportation in the Chapel Hill, Carrboro and University of North Carolina area, prepared in September 1972 by Kimley-Horn and Associates of Raleigh for the two towns, the joint transportation commission and the university student government. Seventy eight pages with illustrations. It records how bus service for the towns and the campus was first costed and planned.
A federal study of public transit in a small city, issued in Washington in March 1976 and given over entirely to Chapel Hill, where bus service has to answer to a university as well as a town. Fifteen pages with a map, covering local transit and urban transportation in the town.
A planning master's project setting out a five-year service plan for Chapel Hill Transit, which serves Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the university, for fiscal years 2006-07 to 2010-11.
Promotional material and newspaper clippings on Chapel Hill Transit, the town's bus system. Undated folder from the Chapel Hill Historical Society's vertical files, Chapel Hill Government series.
Chapel Hill Transit issued this 1995 item about the town's trolley buses, and the trolleys are the whole of its subject. The transit system is given as both author and publisher.
Bus route map issued by the Chapel Hill Transportation Department for the fall of 1975, printed on one folding sheet with text and illustrations on the verso. The routes serve the University of North Carolina campus and the surrounding streets of Chapel Hill.
Folding route map for Chapel Hill Transit, published by the town's Transportation Department. The panel title adds routes and information, an inset covers the campus routes, and the verso describes each route with illustrations. The supplied catalog date is 1947.
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