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This Sunday, the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority will begin 24/7 Metro service on seven of its major routes. The union president doesn t think there are enough drivers to make it a reality. The bus company disagrees.
This new 24/7 Metro service is a part of the first phase of its Reinventing Metro plan. This was made possible with the passing of Issue 7 last spring. The additional 0.8% Hamilton County sales tax should provide about $100 million a year for the bus system plus another $30 million a year for road and bridge projects throughout the county.
Troy L. Miller, president and business agent of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 627, expressed his doubts about Metro s new venture.
Vice President Kamala Harris boosts public transit in Cincinnati to promote infrastructure bill
Updated Apr 30, 2021;
Posted Apr 30, 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris listens to Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, as she attends a discussion about the economy, Friday, April 30, 2021, at 1819 Innovation Hub in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP
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CINCINNATI, Ohio - Vice President Kamala Harris and Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown on Friday hosted a public transit love-fest in Cincinnati as a way to promote an infrastructure package that President Joe Biden wants Congress to pass.
“Good transit equals vibrant communities,” Harris told a roundtable of Cincinnati transit advocates who Brown assembled at the University of Cincinnati. “So if we think about it in terms of an investment in public transit, it is an investment in job creation, it is an investment in improving communities, it is an investment increasing access to opportunity.”
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