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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Check out the APT newsletter below for information about upcoming how-to-ride
trainings for the local OKC bus system. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Jennifer Gooden</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Program Coordinator</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Homeless Alliance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> APTSupport@okc.gov
[mailto:APTSupport@okc.gov] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 11, 2008 9:38 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> blwoodson@urbanleagueok.org; erabrogar@yahoo.com;
dajanaku@hotmail.com; jennifer.alig@deq.state.ok.us; smurfokc@juno.com;
laustin@okhistory.org; paul.barbre@marriott.com; Jackie.Beason@okc.gov;
fiddler53@aol.com; winron8681@cableone.net; pdavis26@cox.net;
stanne71@hotmail.com; marty.dickens@okc.gov; cld62304@yahoo.com;
reldevik@usa.net; mapvagrd@sbcglobal.net; marcus_tresa@msn.com;
davan.@tryfirefly.com; krisglenn@ou.edu; Jennifer Gooden;
debi.holtzclaw@okc.gov; larry.hopper@okc.gov; chrjer@oklahomacounty.org;
ntjones@lunet.edu; lkehoe@acoqok.org; kess3@swbell.net; wlevings@odot.org;
nancy.marshment@deq.state.ok.us; ykmontgomery@lunet.edu;
douglas.myers@ouhsc.edu; sandy.nolan@okc.gov; thepunnery@yahoo.com;
sjpeterson@ou.edu; ogaps35@gmail.com; clayton_robinson@okcommerce.gov;
melisa.rousey@okc.gov; blasch@oklahomacounty.org; rls@rees.com;
jmsharp@acogok.org; charla.sloan@kibois.org; msouthard@shawneeok.org;
inca-atoka-outreach@prodigy.net; dsullivan@odot.org; elaine.vaught@okc.gov;
mkwachtstetter@lunet.edu; cwarnken@ou.edu; brian.wilburn@ouhsc.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Bus Ride Classes and More<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <span
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<p><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Four Items re Transit </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:green'>APT News Items:</span> </b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Symbol;
color:blue'>·</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'> </span><b> </b><b><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>How-to-Ride
Field Training by APT to Start Soon </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Symbol;
color:blue'>·</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'> </span><b> </b><b><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Scientific
Survey says Transit is #2 on Citizens’ List! </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Symbol;
color:blue'>·</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'> </span><b> </b><b><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Health
Equity Campaign Meeting September 18</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Symbol;
color:blue'>·</span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'> </span><b> </b><b><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Magic Bus
Commercial </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>How-to-Ride Field Training by APT to Start Soon </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Alliance
for Public Transportation (APT) will sponsor training and accompany people
wanting to learn how to catch and ride METRO Transit buses. Dean Jackson,
APT Chair, and the APT Board acted in early September to authorize this
activity. The 75 minute training will help people learn how to hail a
bus, transfer to another bus route, understand the paper bus route schedules,
park-and-ride, visit the Downtown Transit Center (DTC), and more. The
field training will be on a fixed schedule (such as first and third Tuesdays at
say 5:10 pm) to help guests learn how to ride by just doing it with smiling,
helpful APT members. Each lesson will take about an hour and will likely
depart from a landmark like the Gold Dome at NW 23<sup>rd</sup> and Classen in
Oklahoma City. All this plus the APT’s smiling volunteers will tell
the trainees fun facts about transit, about the APT, concerning transit’s
need for dedicated local funding, and answer the guests’ questions.
<span style='color:green'>If you desire to be trained to be a
“Trainer” later this month, please respond to this email. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Scientific Survey says Transit is #2 on Citizens’ List!</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Public
transportation is a high priority to Oklahoma City residents. The
Alliance for Public Transportation (APT) has learned that the new Citywide 2008
survey of municipal services was released in early August. The
statistically valid survey results showed that improved public transportation
is in the top two services that residents think the City should emphasize over
the next two years. It was a statistically valid survey of more than
1,000 Oklahoma City households and asked questions about more than a dozen city
services. Last year’s 2007 survey showed public transportation was
rated third. <span style='color:green'>The APT has been the main Oklahoma
nonprofit group boosting transit and raising awareness these past three years.</span>
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Health Equity Campaign Meeting September 18</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>People’s
health status and their access to health care is often limited or thwarted by
social conditions and their setting, such as by inadequate public transportation.
This is one of the points likely to come out of the statewide town hall Health
Equity Campaign (HEC) meeting on September 18 at the OKC Langston Campus.
The APT Board will soon be asking APT partners like you to approve of having the
APT be a formal partner supporting this campaign at the upcoming APT General
Membership meeting being planned for October. The September 18 HEC
meeting starts at 5:30 pm at the Langston Campus located at 4205 N.
Lincoln. Please attend but RSVP to Adrienn<span style='color:black'>e at
(405) 271-9444, ext. 56535 to</span></span> <span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'>RSVP by sometime on Monday,
September 15 so they can plan for refreshments and snacks.</span><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>Magic Bus TV Commercial </span></i></b><br>
<span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>APT
asks, “A Magic Bus for Who?” Or, “Who’s” Magic
Bus is it? I’d rate that record a Bandstand 78… Regardless,
yes, the State Department of Rehabilitation Services (DRS) has gotten local TV
stations to start running the DRS’s award-winning Magic Bus commercial
again. It has been virtually off the air for a couple of years, it
seems. It is a fun, lively video PSA piece with no script but
features the music and lyrics of that famous 60’s vintage hit by the rock
band, “The Who.” The PSA helps all viewers grasp that people
with disabilities (using walkers, white canes, wheelchairs) depend on and<u>
appreciate</u> better transit. </span> <span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'>Consider letting your TV station
know that you</span><u> </u><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:green'>appreciate</span></u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'> them for running the
commercials! </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>September
11, 2008 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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