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KCATA Approves Agreement To Manage New Service
The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) Board of Commissioners voted June 24 to begin managing public transit services for Independence, MO, for the first time since 2012.
The Independence City Council earlier approved the agreement, effective July 1, which integrates the city’s paratransit service into the KCATA system and adds the city’s IndeBus to its regional call center.
Independence will pay KCATA $685,000 to manage the city’s public transit services. The authority entered into a similar agreement with Johnson County, the most populous county in Kansas, in December 2014 as part of a regional effort to build an interconnected public transit network connecting people to economic opportunity.
KCATA President and Chief Executive Officer Joe Reardon called the contract “a real win-win for the citizens of Independence as well as for the entire region.”
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