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<p style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:green'>APT News: February 9-10 SWTA Conference Opportunity for You!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Be part of
the excitement with several hundred conference attendees from about five
states!</span> <br>
<span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><br>
<span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Come to a
professional transit conference in Oklahoma City on all or part of February 9
and 10. Or volunteer to be a "session monitor" at a session
that interests you.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Oklahoma
Alliance for Public Transportation (APT) has collaborated with the Southwest
Transit Association (SWTA)</span><b> </b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green'>to allow up to twenty (20) APT
partners the opportunity to attend session in scholarship, free of
charge. This is normally a $350 value,</span></b> <span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>but SWTA wishes to help APT
energize involvement by Oklahoma transit advocates (citizens and nontransit
industry professionals)! </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This means
the APT can have people come to the EXPO vendor exhibits, General Sessions, and
Breakout Sessions on February 9 and 10, but you must start your free
registration by</span><b> </b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>showing interest by answering this APT email (name and
phone number by 5pm Wednesday</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>,</span><b> </b><b><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>January 21).</span></b><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <span
style='color:green'>Visit the SWTA website at to learn about the conference and
its speakers at</span> </span><a href="http://www.swta.org"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.swta.org</span></a><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> . </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A few
session highlights as of last week: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:green'>Tuesday, Feb 10 at 10:45 -Federal and regional updates (and more!)
from Bill Millar and Dale Marsico, the Presidents of America’s two largest
transit advocacy groups, APTA and CTAA. </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tuesday, Feb
10 at 8:30 - Transit’s role in emergency mass evacuations (floods, leaks, etc.)</span>
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<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Monday, Feb
9 at 1:00 - Rail System safety</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Monday, Feb.
9 at 1:30 - Oklahoma Transit Innovation Ideas that Work</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Monday, Feb.
9 at 2:45 – Amazing Transit Ridership Success Stories and How to gain Teenage
Riders</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Monday, Feb
9 at 8:30 - Hear a Fulbright Scholar lecture on effective emergency
transportation management in the U.S. and Europe </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Expo Vendor
Hall: Monday 7:45-3 pm </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>No meals
or social events are included in the offer, but if someone wants to purchase a
meal ticket it will be $25 per meal. In fact, the Oklahoma APT will find
a way to make one meal ticket available to “Session Monitors” if</span></b><span
style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> they register to be
a session monitor by the end of Tuesday, January 20. Session monitors can
register for the session they want and attend mainly to distribute and collect
evaluation forms, obtain items for that speaker, seek an equipment technician,
and so forth. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:green'>Check out the STWA</span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-size:
18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> website at </span></i></b><a
href="http://www.swta.org"><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.swta.org</span></i></b></a><b><i><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> and sign-up by
answering this email by January 21. Call (405) 297-3876 for information.</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>January
15, 2009 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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