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'Rock Region Metro'

Bus rides free on election day

Rock Region Metro, the local bus service, is providing free bus service on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 8 to help people get to the polls.
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Bus company wins $1.6 million federal grant

Rock Region Metro, the local transit agency, has won its first competitive federal grant — $1.6 million that will purchase compressed gas-powered buses and other equipment.
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Pulaski County transit tax fails

Various media outlets are reporting that the Pulaski County transit tax failed. Looks like 56-44 against.

Pulaski Metroplan members give unanimous thumbs up to 1/4 cent tax

Rock Region Metro Director Jared Varner went before the Metroplan board today to ask for support for the quarter-cent sales tax that would provide Pulaski County with the dedicated funding it needs to operate a modern bus service. He got a unanimous vote from the Pulaski members of Metroplan; other members were excused from voting because the tax would not affect their counties.
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Freedom ride for Rock Region

Dedicated tax will give bus agency flexibility to improve.

Another endorsement for bus tax: NLR chamber

The Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce has been mum on the public transit tax to be voted on March 1, but not the North Little Rock chamber: It announced today its support for the 0.25-cent increase for Rock Region Metro operations, saying it would "provide the agency the autonomy needed to make the current transit route system more efficient and responsive to our community's changing mobility demands and support more, better and modern bus service to central Arkansans."
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Downtown Partnership endorses 0.25 tax for bus agency

The Downtown Little Rock Partnership's board of directors has voted unanimously in support of a proposed sales tax increase to benefit Rock Region Metro, Central Arkansas's public transit agency.

A supremely bad time for traveling — election season

What a time for a vacation — with some important Supreme Court races headed to the ballot along with a few other interesting election issues, such as a presidential primary.
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AFP strays from conservative party line in opposition to bus tax

David Ray, the state director of the right-wing anti-taxation group Americans for Prosperity, which is placing hangtags on people's doors warning "Pulaski County Residents will Pay the Price" if a proposed .25 cent tax raise on the March 2 ballot passes, said in an email yesterday that "our activists have knocked doors across Pulaski County, we hear many people ask why the county insists on raising taxes to expand bus routes when there are severe problems with roads and underperforming schools. Folks living in Pulaski County should understand how local government is raising revenue and spending it."

Pulaski puts transit sales tax on March 1 ballot

The Pulaski County Quorum Court voted tonight to put a quarter-cent sales tax on the county ballot March 1 to provide a dedicated source of revenue for Rock Region metro, the agency formerly known as Central Arkansas Transit.
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Thumbing down on that I-30 ride

Ten-lane plan invigorates opposition, ideas for better way.

Transit company hits a Quorum Court speed bump

The Quorum Court agreed last night to vote in two weeks on whether to put a quarter-cent sales tax for Rock Region Metro on the March 1 election ballot. The outlook isn't promising.
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