Tuesday, July 12, 2005
The CAT's Meow on WAI Radio
Keith Jones is the director of Central Arkansas Transit. He talked about the federal transportation authorization bill, which has been held up for the past two years. Money to finish the next phase of the River Rail is included in that. He talked about the express service to Jacksonville and also out Highway300. Both of those should be getting additional runs soon.
CAT is suffering for lack of money and, considering the hike is gas prices, that is a darned shame. Taxpayers have rejected providing a constant source of funding, so there is not enough equipment not schedule frequencies. In the perfect world, transit would get a permanent quarter-cent sales tax.
There is a lot I can say about it, but you can hear all the interview in the WAI Radio archives, which is among our posted links.
