News & Events
Nov
2020
RideKC Reduces Bus Service Due to COVID-19 Impact
he Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) will temporarily roll back some RideKC transit service starting Monday, Nov. 23. This is due to the increasing community spread of COVID-19, which is resulting in higher than normal absenteeism among KCATA’s operator workforce.
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2020
KCATA Holds Public Online Meetings To Share Transit Redesign Developed By Customers, Stakeholders
(Kansas City, Mo. – Nov. 9, 2020) – The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority will hold virtual public meetings to present the RideKC Next transit plan developed by customers and stakeholders over the last year and a half. Customers are encouraged to attend the online meetings to provide valuable input about this next phase of the RideKC Next plan in Kansas City, Mo.
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2020
RideKC Transit App Provides Transit Directions To Polling Places on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020
The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority is reminding voters that they can easily take RideKC transit to their polling place for free. All polling places for the Nov. 3 election are available on RideKC’s official app, Transit.
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2020
KCATA Partners with Alphapointe to Roll Out New Transit App for Visually Impaired
The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA), in partnership with Alphapointe and Sensible Innovation, has developed a wayfinding app to help blind and visually impaired transit customers use transit more safely and accurately. It is the first application of its kind to be applied to an entire transit corridor in the United States.
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2020
KCATA Partners with Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes’ 15 and the Mahomies Foundation to Provide Free Shuttle to Arrowhead on Election Day, Nov. 3
The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) will provide free shuttle service on RideKC buses from the East Village Transit Center at 12th & Charlotte in downtown Kansas City to Arrowhead Stadium on Election Day. The shuttle will run between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. approximately every 30 minutes on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020.
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2020
KCATA Receives $600K Innovation Grant for Precision Guidance Sensors
KCATA today announced that it will receive $600,000 in funding through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Accelerating Innovative Mobility (AIM) initiative to support mobility and innovation in the transit industry.
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2020
RideKC Partners with Swiftly to Launch Improved Real-Time Information
(Kansas City, Mo. – Aug. 17, 2020) The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) has partnered with Swiftly, Inc., a San Francisco-based big data platform for public transit and mobility services, to bring improved real-time transit arrival and vehicle crowding predictions to RideKC. These improvements were tested internally at KCATA in 2020 and are now fully implemented.
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2020
RideKC Improves Service August 2; New East Village Transit Center Opens
(Kansas City, Mo. – July 27, 2020) The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) announces good news for RideKC customers beginning Sunday, Aug. 2, 2020. First, the newly built East Village Transit Center at 12th & Charlotte will open for bus service. Second, starting in August, several routes will restore weekday service, or add trips where crowding has been occurring.
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2020
RideKC To Give Free Masks Next Week in Support of New KCMO City Order
(Kansas City, Mo. - June 26, 2020) RideKC will be at highly used transit centers and bus stops next week, providing riders with thousands of free masks. Under the City of Kansas City, Mo.’s new order, face coverings will be required on RideKC buses and on KC Streetcar.
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2020
RideKC Announces Later Hours for Transit Routes
Starting May 31, RideKC will offer later hours on various routes.
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