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TARTA New Transit Hub Site of Dedication Ceremony

Sojourner’s Truth Staff

Local officials participated in a dedication ceremony for the new public transit system’s main bus station on Wednesday, August 7. The NEW TARTA hub, located at the corner of Cherry and Huron Street will be open for business on August 19 – also the first day of classes for Toledo Public Schools.

The new station will allow TARTA to close its current four-station downtown loop that encloses nine city blocks.

TARTA purchased the former Goodwill Building at Huron and Cherry streets in 2018 for $1.5 million and spent about $650,000 to remodel the space into its central bus station. The monies were obtained through federal Transit Authority and Ohio Department of Transportation grants.

The newly renovated space contains a passenger lobby of 5,000 square feet, a climate-controlled waiting area, information booths, restrooms, security, on-site pass purchases and fac-to-face contact with information operators. The hub is 100 percent accessible to those with disabilities.

Present at last week’s ceremony were U.S. Representative Marcy Kaptur; Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz; Stacey Clink, TARTA interim general manager; City Councilmen Larry Sykes, Yvonne Harper; Toledo Public Schools Board Member Bob Vasquez; State Rep Lisa Sobecki, among others.

Kaptur noted that the new hub continues a downtown revival for the Toledo, calling the reuse a “major victory.”

The ceremony last week is the first phase of the TARTA hub transformation. The second phase, due to be completed in August 2020, will bring administrative offices into the facility.

Now, with the new development, most TARTA buses will line up along either northbound Huron Street between Orange and Cherry streets or eastbound on Cherry between Huron and Superior streets. During the open house last week, information listed seven routes that will have lineups on the westbound side of Huron.

Next spring, TARTA hopes to place on local ballots for voters’ approval, a measure that will switch local funding from a property tax to a sales tax. The key to getting the measure on the ballots is the approval of the representatives from all of the member communities of the TARTA system and, so far, the board of commissioners of Sylvania Township have blocked those efforts.

“With proper funding, we can become an innovative, effective, viable transportation option,” said Clink.

 

   
   


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Revised: 08/15/19 10:24:33 -0400.


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