Whenever one of our bus stops is damaged our crew acts quickly to make repairs and get the bus stop back into working order.
For more details about the program and where to find heat relief /heat. The project is a partnership between the city of Phoenix's Volunteer Office, Office of Emergency Management and Resilience AmeriCorps team. The volunteers will head to Desert Sky Transit Center in west Phoenix and the Ed Pastor Transit Center in south Phoenix as well. Also, in between handing out maps, several of the scouts and their leaders took time to pick up litter around Central Station.
Heywood was joined by Vice Mayor Kate Gallego, Councilman Michael Nowakowski and 30 volunteers of fellow scouts, family and friends to hand out heat relief center maps at Central Station on Tuesday, July 12. Of course the RAPID routes would not continue to be a success without the riders who depend on them for a drive-free commute, and although TICO has never adorned the RAPID bus, he appreciates anyone using transit to get around town.Ī group of Valley kids, led by Eagle Scout candidate Kaden Heywood, are spending some time at Phoenix's transit centers to educate riders where they can find heat relief throughout the Valley. On the first day of operation, the SR51 and I-10E RAPID routes had 480 boardings between them - today the routes average over 1,200 boardings combined. On Monday, Jthe Phoenix Transit Department and Valley Metro welcomed the twins to the Valley's transit world, the two would later be joined by the I-17, I-10W and the two South Mountain RAPIDs (we will celebrate those when it's time). Normally #TICOTuesday is on a Tuesday, but we thought we would break from the norm to celebrate the 13th birthday of the I-10E and SR51 RAPID routes. Fleming - from Tico and all his friends at Phoenix Public Transit. Although he passed away in 2013, we thought it would be a good idea to pay a small, but deserving tribute to Mr. Fleming's, author of Ride a Mile and Smile the While : a history of the Phoenix Street Railway, 1887-1948. This Sunday, July 24, would have marked the 84th birthday Lawrence J. This week's #TICOTuesday pays tribute to the man who literally wrote the book on transit in Phoenix (1887-1948). To celebrate the ADA law, the Phoenix Mayor’s Commission on Disability Issues and the Equal Opportunity Department are seeking nominations for Phoenix's Disability Awards and Recognition Event, which honors individuals with disabilities, their employers and others who have shown dedication to the access and functional needs community. Learn more at /eod. All bus orders from that point on were for accessible buses and in 1998 the department reached a 100% accessible bus fleet. The first accessible that was put into service was #4401 (pictured below), which became part of the fleet in 1981. However, nearly a decade before the Phoenix Public Transit Department had already begun the process to ensure that transit was accessible to everyone in Phoenix. Bush, and as a result required all transit agencies to purchase buses that were wheelchair accessible. Today marks the 26th anniversary the America with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law by President George H.W. So when it's the birthday of a man known for his pop art, TICO took the opportunity to honor Andy Warhol (and TICO too). It's no secret that here at #TICOTuesday headquarters we have a couple crutches to routinely help us out with our tweets, so it only seemed appropriate that on #NationalBookLoversDay we take some time to give those "crutches" their time in the spotlight.Īs we have shown in the past, every now and then we are going to break from the normal #TICOTuesday tweets.
So we put together this flash (that would be a good circulator name too) card to help you (and us) remember what each circulator's name really means.Ĭelebrating a "National Day" the TICO way ALEX, DASH, MARY and SMART are all easy to remember, unless you're trying to remember what they mean, because they are actually acronyms.
TICO isn't the only transit offering with a catchy name, all of our circulators have catchy names too.