After operating at a deficit of service for nearly five years, the Chapel Hill Transit system is set to fully restore some of its routes in the new year. The local bus system said earlier in December that five routes with limited service times and frequency will return to full operations, as well as one route temporarily covered by Carolina Livery. The A, CL, CW, J and N routes will return to their full morning and evening times starting on Monday, Jan. 6, according to the town, and the CCX route will return to running Chapel Hill Transit buses. Chapel Hill Transit Director Brian Litchfield told Chapelboro the updates are thanks to improve staffing for the transit system, which was forced to scale back its service during the COVID-19 pandemic for safety precautions and, later, out of necessity based on driver shortages. In 2021, the system said it had 36 full-time positions and 15 part-time positions it was trying to fill. "This is a really positive step in the right direction, and ...