Agencies Wrap up Deal for 5 Free BART Rides; BART, MTC, Air District Unite to ''Spare the Air'' This Summer.HAYWARD, Calif. -- For the first time ever, a BART train will give up its traditional silver and blue colors for a multicolor wrap that says: "Spare the Air." BART, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC mtc - A Modula-2 to C translator. ftp://rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/soft/Unixtools/compilerbau/mtc.tar.Z. ) and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (Air District) unveiled the sporty sport·y adj. sport·i·er, sport·i·est 1. Appropriate for sport or participation in sports. 2. Exhibiting sportsmanship; sporting. 3. Flashy; jazzy. new look during a news conference at BART's Hayward maintenance yard, where officials from the three agencies announced a landmark partnership that, for the first time, will allow travelers to ride BART free during the mornings of the first five weekday Spare the Air days this summer. Beginning June 21, the free morning commutes on BART will start the first five times the Air District declares a weekday Spare the Air day. Passengers can take advantage of the free rides if they get to a BART station between the start of service and 9 a.m. BART will collect fares as usual for rides beginning after 9 a.m. The estimated $2 million cost of the free ride program will be paid by MTC, using federal transportation dollars allocated to the Bay Area. The pilot program aims to protect billions of transportation dollars and reduce Bay Area smog during the summer when pollution levels are the highest. The federal government could, for air quality reasons, withhold with·hold v. with·held , with·hold·ing, with·holds v.tr. 1. To keep in check; restrain. 2. To refrain from giving, granting, or permitting. See Synonyms at keep. 3. or even cancel billions of highway and transit dollars earmarked for the Bay Area. The Air District declares a Spare the Air day when it expects air pollution to reach unhealthy concentrations, which typically occur on hot, windless days. Spare the Air advisories are issued the afternoon before a Spare the Air day and are typically well publicized pub·li·cize tr.v. pub·li·cized, pub·li·ciz·ing, pub·li·ciz·es To give publicity to. Adj. 1. publicized - made known; especially made widely known publicised through media outlets the morning of a Spare the Air day. The public can get advance notification of Spare the Air days by registering for "AirAlerts" at www.sparetheair.org. Seven BART cars traveling on the Pittsburg/Bay Point and Dublin/Pleasanton lines will be cloaked See cloaking. in Spare the Air wrap. MTC is the transportation planning Transportation planning is the field involved with the siting of transportation facilities (generally streets, highways, sidewalks, bike lanes and public transport lines). , coordinating and financing agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay . The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (www.baaqmd.gov) is the regional agency chartered with protecting air quality in the Bay Area. |
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