TARC's Job Hunter Bus Is Tomorrow

TARC's Job Hunter Bus will be taking riders to the Job News Job Fair at Papa John's Cardinal Stadium tomorrow.

The job fair is from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Riders can access TARC to the job fair from these locations at these times:

Urban League, 1535 W. Broadway: 9:30, 10:30, 11:30, 12:30, 1:30
NIA Center, 29th and Broadway: 9:35, 10:35, 11:35, 12:35, 1:35
Kentucky Office of Employment, 6th and Cedar: 9:40, 10:40, 11:40, 12:40, 1:40
Goodwill Industries, 332 W. Broadway: 9:50, 10:50, 11:50, 12:50, 1:50
Network Center for Community Change (NC3), 334 E. Broadway: 9:55, 10:55, 11:55, 12:55, 1:55

Buses leaving the job fair at: 10:10, 11:10, 12:10, 1:10, 2:10 and will return riders to the stops they began at. There is no charge to ride the Job Hunter bus. For more information on routes and pick-up/drop-ff sites, go to www.ridetarc.org/job-hunter-bus/.

TARC Service To River Ridge Commerce Center, Amazon begins next Monday

If you work in the River Ridge Commerce Park or at the Amazon.com Distribution center, don't forget that beginning Monday, Jan. 21 there will be a service to the commerce park and Amazon.com on Indiana 62 near Jeffersonville, Ind.

Route information is:

 

Route #71-Jeffersonville-Louisville-New Albany:

This route will be extended to provide three morning and four afternoon weekday trips serving River Ridge Commerce Center including the Amazon.com Inc. site, on IN 62 in Jeffersonville. All River Ridge/Amazon trips will stop at a park-and-ride at Meijer at Allison Lane and IN 62 with transfer connections to Rt. #82. Stops will be added to Patrol Road, Centennial Boulevard and Middle Road on the Rt. #71 extension to River Ridge. Some bus arrival and departure times will change by five-ten minutes on weekdays. The last westbound trip from the Meijer will depart seven minutes later to accommodate Meijer employees whose shifts end at 10 p.m.

 

Route #82-New Albany-Clarksville-Jeffersonville:

TARC will add two Saturday trips - one morning and one afternoon - to the Accent Marketing complex in the Jeffersonville Towne Center off Veterans Parkway. Weekday arrival and departure times between Greentree Boulevard in Clarksville and the Jeffersonville Meijer will change slightly to better address shift changes at Accent Marketing. Some weekday trip times will change by 5-15 minutes to provide for transfer connections with Rt. #71 trips to River Ridge.

For more information, including maps and schedules, visit www.ridetarc.org or call customer service, 502-585-1234; TTY: 502-213-3240.

In addition, TARC will be operating on regular service on January 21, which is Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

 

Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Wants to Hear From You!

In 2035, what will be Kentucky's transportation needs? Will our focus be on maintaining and improving existing roadways, constructing new roads, or issues concerning other modes of transportation? Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) officials are asking these questions as they update the Kentucky Long Range Transportation Plan.

 

Just like KIPDA has been working on a long range plan,  KYTC is updating the state's plan and they need your input. They want your help in determining the transportation needs for all areas of Kentucky over the next two decades. The plan will consider changes in communities, freight movement, financial resources, economic development, rural and urban transportation, the environment and other transportation issues that are impacting you.

The new plan will be an overarching policy guide with goals, objectives and strategies to address the core transportation opportunities and challenges facing each of us. KYTC has come up with a confidential survey to gauge your transportation expectations.

The “Your Turn” survey will be online and available through Feb. 25. It consists of 19 questions.

It is available in electronic and hard copy form in English and Spanish. A link to the “Your Turn” survey and other transportation information can be found by visiting www.transportation.ky.gov and clicking on the “Your Turn” survey link. You can also access “Your Turn” directly at the link yourturn.transportation.ky.gov. This direct link will also provide compiled survey results in late 2013 as well as other information throughout the update of this Long Range Plan.

 Paper surveys are available at:

·         KYTC highway district offices

·         Area Development District offices, including KIPDA, 11520 Commonwealth Drive in Louisville.

·         Metropolitan Planning Organization offices, , including KIPDA, 11520 Commonwealth Drive in Louisville.

·         Transportation Cabinet Office Building, 200 Mero St., Frankfort

 For more information or to request a survey, call the cabinet weekdays from 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. eastern time at (502) 564-3419.

Lanes Closures Begin Monday on the Second Street/George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge

If you use the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge/Second Street Bridge to travel to work you're going to need to build in some extra time beginning Monday.

Work is scheduled to begin the week of January 14^th for steel and sidewalk repairs on the Indiana approach, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has announced.

Traffic will be reduced to one lane in each direction 24 hours a day while crews replace handrails and sidewalks and repair bridge expansion joints.  Hall Contracting is permitted two 30-day time periods for the lane closures, one for each side of the bridge. Work will begin in the southbound lanes on Monday at 7:30 a.m., weather permitting.

 The cabinet says about 15,000 vehicles cross this bridge each day. These travelers will have to slow down as the speed limit in the work zone will be reduced to 25 MPH for the duration of the project. The project will be signed as a double fine work zone.

Hall Contracting was given $1.07 million for the project, which has a completion date of April 15, 2013.

The painting of the steel on the Indiana approach will be performed under separate contract this summer. Lane closures on the bridge will not be needed to perform this work, but some sidewalk closures may be necessary.

 Actual starting date is subject to change in the event of inclement weather or other unforeseeable delays. For construction and traffic updates, visit http://transportation.ky.gov/District-5/Pages/District-5-Traffic-Advisories.aspx. Traffic information for all eight counties in District 5 is also available at www.facebook.com/KYTCDistrict5. Dial 511 or log on to 511.ky.gov for the latest in traffic and travel information across the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Design a Bus Contest Underway, Seeks Entries

Are you a teacher and looking for a fun way to get your children involved in doing something for the community? Are you a parent looking for a fun activity for your child to work on in the evening hours?

TARC and Kentuckiana Air Education (KAIRE) are partnering for the 14th annual Kids Design-A-Bus Contest! This year's theme is "I Care About The Air."

Children in grades K-8 in the Louisville and southern Indiana area are challenged to come up with a design to be adorned on a TARC bus and have a chance to ride on the bus in the Kentucky Derby Pegasus Parade!

Here are the requirements for the contest: entries should be in marker, crayon, or paint and submitted on 11-by-17 white paper or digitally as a JPEG or PDF file. Entries will be judged on visual appeal, creativity,

originality, and message. All artwork is to be produced by the student only.

The deadline to register the artwork is Friday, March 8, 2013. Entry forms must be attached to hard or digital copies. For copies of entry forms, visit www.ridetarc.orgor e-mail Jon Reiter at jreiter@ridetarc.org, or Jessica Holman at jholman@ridetarc.org. Paper entries should be sent to TARC, c/o Marketing Department., 1000 W. Broadway, Louisville, Ky. 40203.

For more information, go to www.ridetarc.org or www.helptheair.org .