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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, July 23, 2009 11:48 AM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Please sign up; Read about 7/16<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:blue'>·</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'> </span><b> </b><b><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>A Call for
People to Like to Talk! </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:blue'>·</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'> </span><b> </b><b><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>What is
your Zipcode? </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Symbol;
color:blue'>·</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:blue'> </span><b> </b><b><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>July 16
Lunch a Success; Next One- September 17</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue'>A Call for People to Like to Talk! </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>This is easy,
and takes hardly any time! The APT’s Policy Initiative Committee</span></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> is starting to get underway, chaired
by Lauren White. Pease sign up by answering this email and by stating
your home zipcode. The volunteers will meet briefly soon to get training to
prepare them to visit with elected officials in their hometowns. The eventual
visitation meetings would be, for example, a few people with their specific
City Council member. Some of this committee may also succinctly address entire
City Councils or other bodies. </span><b> </b><b><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>It takes you!</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>So, please sign up! </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'>What is your Zipcode? </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Again, please
sign-up for the APT Policy Initiative Committee</span></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> and let us know your city and
zipcode. There is strength and comfort when you work and visit with
others. Your elected officials want to hear from you and your neighbors,
and not from outsiders.</span><b> </b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Email
this to a friend!</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </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'>July 16 APT Lunch Meeting: Next One-Sept. 17 </span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Oklahoma Alliance for
Public Transportation, APT,</span></b> <span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>had
another well-attended meeting at the Community Foundation last week.<b>
About 50 were present to hear what Councilman Sam Bowman</b> of Oklahoma City
had to say about the need for more transit. They also heard from other speakers
about transit plans and toured a new bus. Councilman Bowman indicated
that transit has an excellent chance of being in a MAPS3 vote later this
year. He reminded the group that MAPS funds the building of something,
but the cost of operating that something has typically come from some other tax
source. And so some form of downtown circulator, such as a COTPA electric
streetcar, could be possible in a MAPS3 as could other transit improvements. He
identified the need to have an effort parallel to MAPS to dramatically improve
the operational funding of bus service, but indicated that areas currently
served should not be less served under some revamped future COTPA system.
Getting the public support by a vote for funds was a necessary step, and he
seemed pleased to see the momentum represented by groups like the APT.</span><b>
</b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Thank you Councilman
Bowman!</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The APT also conducted an
informal, anonymous MAPS3 survey among the meeting’s attendees based on past
APT Listening Sessions. Most attendees responded about their ballot preferences
and were asked to select either a downtown system, a mixture of a downtown and
commuter system, or suggest their own idea. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Some in the audience had questions
about future transit plans. Larry Hopper of METRO Transit representative
helped attendees understand there already is a recognized long-range regional
plan for transit in this region but no funding for implementation. It is
the</span><b> </b><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>COTPA Fixed
Guideway Study (FGS) and its “System Plan”</span></b><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'> (a plan map and document) that is part of the FGS. Both
are on the web at </span><a href="http://www.okfgs.org"><span style='font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.okfgs.org</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>
and the plan map can be viewed and copied from there. Developed in four
rounds of 20 public meetings across the region in 2005, the FGS and the System
Plan are regional and cover transit in many forms. It is more than just a
rail system plan, and includes “enhanced bus” service with a “modified grid”
layout, more ADA paratransit, and more senior van service in a service area of
about a dozen suburbs. It recommended a regional funding source and governance.
Governing bodies at ACOG, COTPA and the City of Oklahoma City passed actions on
the plan. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The group also heard from
Doug Rex of ACOG who stated that the ACOG</span><b> </b><b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Regional Transit Dialogue</span></b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> (RTD) steering committee is
progressing well. It has met a couple of times and the four subcommittees have
been meeting. The RTD uses the COTPA Fixed Guideway Study (FGS) as a
foundation, for ideas, and as a springboard and the RTD should be complete by
mid 2010. The RTD will help spread transit awareness among local municipal
leaders and other people about the FGS, about regionwide transit finance, bus
and rail technologies, the relative necessity of transit, and how to better
govern a regionwide service. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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