County-Wide Transportation Millage Passes and Moves Forward

On Tuesday May 7, 2013, residents of Kalamazoo County passed the 0.4 millage. With 93 of 94 precincts reporting, about 72 percent of voters approved the renewal -- 11,711 voters have cast "yes" votes and 4,464 voters have cast "no" votes. To learn more about the election results, read the article from the Kalamazoo Gazette Click here

 2012 Annual Report

Since the KCTA was operational in 2006, the City of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Kalamazoo Transportation Authority Board and KCTA have been working collaboratively on achieving an integrated, county-wide public transit system. In May of 2010, a team representing the City, County and KCTA developed the Kalamazoo County Transportation Plan to guide cooperative efforts.

In September 2012, executives from the City of Kalamazoo, County of Kalamazoo and KCTA (also known as the Administrative Work Group) were directed to update the plan for moving regional public transit forward. Attached you will find the County-Wide Public Transportation System White Paper that was co-drafted by the Administrative Work Group.

The White Paper focuses on several key areas that include the history of regional public transit, the status of recent collaborative efforts, findings and conclusions, and recommendations for moving forward.

Click here to view the 2013 White Paper

Community Service Van placed in South County

The Kalamazoo Metro Transit, in conjunction with the Kalamazoo County Transportation Authority, has placed a community service van in Vicksburg with South County Community Services to further promote public transportation to citizens throughout Kalamazoo County.  

To learn more about this partnership see the article in the Kalamazoo Gazette. click here

Since 2005, Metro Transit has been operating the Community Service Van program, a specialized service program sponsored and funded by the Michigan Department of Transportation to allow local agencies to use accessible vans at no cost to the agency.  The vans are mostly used by non-profit and government agencies for transporting elderly and/or individuals with disabilities.  The program currently operates with six accessible vans;  five of which are stored at the Metro Transit facility and one now placed in Vicksburg.  All of the vehicles are ADA accessible and have the capacity of transporting up to six passengers without wheelchairs, or three passengers with one wheelchair. In 2012, the Community Service Van provided 8,970 rides within Kalamazoo County. For more information or to apply for the Community Service Van, please contact Melissa Coulson at 337-8858.

The KCTA Board holds its business meetings at 5:30 pm on the 2nd and 4th Monday of the month in the Metro Transit Administration Building at 530 N Rose Street.

All meetings will be publicly noticed in accordance with the Michigan Open Meetings Act, unless otherwise noticed.

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2013 KCTA Meeting Schedule

Date	Type of Meeting	Agenda	Minutes	Meeting Packets/Reports
Jan 14	Regular	Agenda	Minutes
Jan 28	Regular	Agenda	Minutes
Feb 11	Regular - CANCELLED	CANCELLED	------------
Feb 25	Annual 03_25_13 Agenda	AGENDA	Minutes	February 25th Annual Meeting
Mar 11	Regular	Agenda	Minutes	March 11 Meeting Packet
Mar 25	Regular	Agenda	Minutes	March 25 Meeting Packet
Apr 8	Regular - CANCELLED	CANCELLED	-------------
Apr 22	Regular	Agenda	Minutes	April 22 Meeting Packet
May 8	Regular	Agenda	Minutes	May 8 Meeting Packet
May 28	Regular	Agenda		May 28 Meeting Packet
Jun 10	Regular - CANCELLED	CANCELLED	-----------
Jun 24	Regular	Agenda