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are all 10', 6" high. They all ineasure about 40' long. There were questions about the hours of service. Weekdays, the morning peak will be approximately 6:15 a.m. until about 8:50 a.m. Buses will start at about 15 minute increments. Roughly between 7:10 a.m. until about 7:45 a.m., this may improve to about an 8 minute increment. The evening peak will be approximately 4:00 p.m. until about 6:20 p.m. Bus service will initially operate at about a 15 minute increment from the lot. He said he is saying "about" because they are a public demand service and if the public demands more frequency, they will provide it. If there are not enough passengers, they will lower the frequency. Between 4:40 p.m. until about 5:30 p.m. they may be operating at 8 minute increments. During the weekday peak, passengers are primarily cominuter traffic to and from downtown Cleveland. That is who will be parking at the facility. During the off-peak, the middle of the day, about 1 trip per hour will have a trip terminate at the transit center. This is the bus that normally travels down Lorain Road to the county line, but because we need to provide some mid-day service for people who may leave work, or who are going to Great Northern Mall, we have some trips ending at the mall now, those trips will now end at the Park- N-Ride. These things are subject to change but those are the approximations they have now. On weekends the lot will be passive. There will be no parking there initially. There are special events we will provide bus service for, which would be Indians games and Browns games. They are anticipating they will run about 3 buses per home game from the Park-N-Ride lot. The buses will normally leave about an hour before the game starts, and leave 30 minutes after the game ends from downtown. So you have about a 25 minute trip and if an Indians game ends at 10:00 p.m., the buses should be there no later than 11:00 p.m. Although there may be occasions when a game goes into extra innings. The weekends though will have low utilization. They don't know about any other route servina the center because they have to deal with where the people want the buses to go and how often they run. Mr. Koeth asked Mr. Joyce to address the question of surveillance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Mr. Joyce said he does not think a single camera can cover the lot for 360 degrees. A camera set up is about $8,900, so adding extra cameras into it will require $8,000+, depending on the quality of the cainera. They could probably do it, put 4 cameras up on the roof, but that is dependent upon the budget. He stressed that the cameras always record. Depending on how much activity is going on, that record is preserved, it's about 48 hours approximately. If there is any kind of incident, it is a passive system where they are able to use the recording and preserve it as evidence. It would be pretty rare that they would have anyone actually watching a screen, unless there was a specific reason they set the cameras up to do it. Mrs. Lori Bosl of Sunset Oval came forward to ask about the length of time the buses will be idling. She was told they will not sit and idle and she asked if that is correct. Mr. Terbrack said it is not correct. He indicated they will idle because of the air conditioning systems. He added that most buses will not have a long lay over but it depends on the timing. There are buses making multiple trips going in and out of downtown and coming back to the facility. In most cases the buses will be there a very short time but they will be running. Mrs. Bosl asked for clarification on the meaning of "short time." Mr. Terbrack said it would be 5, 8, 10-12 minutes. She then asked how many buses could be there at any given time idling, during the peak. Mr. Terbrack said probably no more than two. Mr. Miller said in response to those questions, he asked Mr. Terbrack if it would be fair to say that during the peak hours, as one bus pulls away another bus would be pulling up, so that during your peak hours you would have at least one bus continually running during those hours. Mr. Terbrack said generally yes but not all the time. Mr. IVliller said he asked that question to drive home the importance of the mounding that they have asked for. Mr. Allen asked Mr. Terbrack what percentage of the fleet is run by natural gas. Mr. Terbrack said none. He said in the transit industry there seems to be a reversal. There are new technology buses coming out with low emission diesel technologies and the industry is now leaning toward going back to diesel because of the cost of natural gas. He added our facility doesn't have natural gas fueling anyway. Mr. Allen asked if it is safe to say then they don't have the new high-tech diesel engine and Mr. Terbrack confirmed that. Mrs. O'Rourke asked if there is refueling at their facility and it was confirmed there is not. Mr. Asseff asked if the two buses that are a little bit higher are the new Park-N-Ride coaches. Mr. Terbrack indicated they are. Mr. Asseff asked if they would then have those 2 new buses in addition to the older Park-N-Ride 12