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Talk-Line: Greg Gates on future Ogle County transit plans · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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  Speaker 1: It's October the twenty ninth, the year is twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: and it's time for another informational edition of talk Line
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  Speaker 1: here at w i X and Radio. Good morning, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Steve Marco. It is time for our regular visit monthly
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  Speaker 1: with our friends from Reagan Mass Transit. The Reagan Mass
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  Speaker 1: Transit District has been our staple every month coming up
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  Speaker 1: with information and activities through Reagan Mass Transit. Is the
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  Speaker 1: executive director of the Reagan Mass Transit District. Kind of
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  Speaker 1: a bitter sweet talk line that we hold today with
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  Speaker 1: our dear friend, because I guess we'll be parting ways,
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  Speaker 1: so to speak, after our broadcast today. But it's been
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  Speaker 1: a pleasure having Greg Gates on board with this every
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  Speaker 1: month to bring us what is going on in the
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  Speaker 1: world of travel across our northern Illinois area.
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  Speaker 2: And Greg, good morning to you.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: It is nice to have you with us, sir, Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for joining us. Like I mentioned, kind of a bittersweet
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  Speaker 1: talk line that we present to you today, but nonetheless
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  Speaker 1: we're going to get out the information from Reagan Mass
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  Speaker 1: Transit not kind of well, you know, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to dwell on, you know, because it'll take up too
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  Speaker 1: much of our time, you know, trying to get Greg's
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of information that he wants.
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  Speaker 2: To share with you this morning. But it's been a
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  Speaker 2: pleasure having on boards.
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  Speaker 3: It's been an honor and I do appreciate our time
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  Speaker 3: in our conversations very much, sir.
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  Speaker 1: And we appreciate your visits obviously monthly. Either it's Greg
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  Speaker 1: or one of our representatives from Reagan Mass Transit that
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  Speaker 1: has been visiting with us and keeping us in the
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  Speaker 1: know as far as activities are concerned through Reagan Mass Transit,
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  Speaker 1: and we wanted to talk today. We've been getting word
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  Speaker 1: since its inception, and now it sounds like are the
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  Speaker 1: wheels turning in Ogle County now? Greg?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, See, we waited for your announcement of retirements. It
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  Speaker 3: feels like it's been that long. But quite honestly, I'm
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  Speaker 3: happy to say that we finally got concurrence from I
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  Speaker 3: to move forward with going out for a general contractor
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  Speaker 3: for the Oregon Office construction. So wheels are turning. It's
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  Speaker 3: not going you know, fifty five yet, but quite honestly,
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  Speaker 3: it is moving and I'm hoping that within the next
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  Speaker 3: week or two we'll actually have some type of bid
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  Speaker 3: solicitation that we'll be going out in area newspapers as
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  Speaker 3: well as online forums where general contractors can actually you know,
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  Speaker 3: put their best proposal, put some pen to paper, sharpen
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  Speaker 3: that pencil as much as possible these days, and give
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  Speaker 3: us a quality bid and we'll start reviewing those, most
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  Speaker 3: likely within the next six weeks. We normally will give
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  Speaker 3: some type of period like thirty days to actually allow
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  Speaker 3: for that solicitation process to work itself through. If people
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  Speaker 3: are not familiar with that process, you know, you can
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  Speaker 3: always google bid solicitation. But effectively, what we're going to
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  Speaker 3: be going out for is the hiring of a general
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  Speaker 3: contractor for that construction project. And we know that since
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  Speaker 3: its inception, since we requested that funding obviously I think
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  Speaker 3: three going out four years ago, the cost has not
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  Speaker 3: gone down, it has gone up. And I know that
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  Speaker 3: we are still in some conversations with iDoubt about potentially
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  Speaker 3: some additional funding to fill in some of those potential
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  Speaker 3: funding gaps. But we might actually find a general contractor
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  Speaker 3: who has the capability and capacity to do it a
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  Speaker 3: little cheaper than others, but the process has to be
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  Speaker 3: worked through. So after that thirty day period of soliciting
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  Speaker 3: potential bids. We will sit down with our architects and
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  Speaker 3: engineers and we will as a review committee to sign
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  Speaker 3: who is going to be the general contractor. And the
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  Speaker 3: next step after that is getting some approval from IDOUTA
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  Speaker 3: in terms of just basically baptizing the general contractor. And
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  Speaker 3: once that pre award concurrence processes is done, that's when
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  Speaker 3: stuff really gets going real and that's when the bus
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  Speaker 3: does pick up some more speed, so to speak, because
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  Speaker 3: then we're talking, Okay, we're putting a timeline together as
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  Speaker 3: to when construction it's going to start. Orders are going
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  Speaker 3: to be made in terms of the supplies that are
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  Speaker 3: required and the man work of hours, the personnel hours
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  Speaker 3: that will be required to actually finish that project start
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  Speaker 3: to finish, and that is some exciting period of time
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  Speaker 3: coming up. And I think, as you've been along on
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  Speaker 3: that ride it we're well beyond excited about getting this
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  Speaker 3: started for the first time and putting some you know,
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  Speaker 3: turning some ground there at the corner of Route Too
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  Speaker 3: and Pines Road. We do have an address that'll be
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  Speaker 3: seven nine Pin Road there at the corner of Pines
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  Speaker 3: and Route Too. And I can't wait to start seeing
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  Speaker 3: that structure, which will be very similar to ours, just
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  Speaker 3: a smaller footprint, so to speak. But it will provide
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  Speaker 3: a new resource for the Regging mass trendsit that we
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  Speaker 3: don't have in Ogle County. And that's a jumping off
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  Speaker 3: point for our vehicles on a daily basis Monday through
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  Speaker 3: Friday and hopefully in the future on weekends as well.
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  Speaker 3: So that's exciting. That is a milestone in the history
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  Speaker 3: of Reagan Mass Transit District as well as Lee Ogle
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  Speaker 3: Transportation System overall. And very excited about that potential.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, And you know, obviously with your incursion into Winnebago County,
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  Speaker 1: now that's going to make it a lot better. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you won't have to drive the distance you're doing it now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you're using the you know, Reagan Transit Center
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  Speaker 1: as the hub right now. But once that facility is up,
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  Speaker 1: then Greg, I got to believe, you know, Winnebago is
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  Speaker 1: going to come into play better in that area then, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's sort of like a trickle down effect. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: currently a lot of our buses that are serving Ogle
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  Speaker 3: County are coming out of Dixon, except for some of
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  Speaker 3: our operators that are already located in the Ogle County area.
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  Speaker 3: Our buses, i say, are our direct ones coming out
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  Speaker 3: of our Reagan Transit Center. Will those that serve Ogo
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  Speaker 3: County will obviously migrate in that direction to Oregon. But
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  Speaker 3: as you said, it's another good jumping off spot to
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  Speaker 3: then service rural Winnebego Counties. So I think in the
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  Speaker 3: near future you're going to see an adjustment to the ridership.
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  Speaker 3: My hope, and it's always been and I've always told
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  Speaker 3: this to Ogle County stakeholders, is the fact that you know,
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  Speaker 3: we want to grow the base of ridership in Ogo County.
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  Speaker 3: It's a larger county. We should have a larger base
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  Speaker 3: of ridership coming out of that county, all corners, not
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  Speaker 3: just you know, some of the larger municipalities. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: excited about that potential and then that lingering effect over
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  Speaker 3: into roal Winnebego because we're seeing some positive building of
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  Speaker 3: ridership in rural Winnebego. That's very exciting as well. At
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  Speaker 3: the same time, and when I say exciting, more people
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  Speaker 3: are becoming aware of the service that we're doing in
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  Speaker 3: partnership with Winnebego County, and obviously there is a need,
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  Speaker 3: and the more we turn that soil, the more we
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  Speaker 3: know that there will be more seeds that will come
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  Speaker 3: to fruition with more people wanting to use that service. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what our mission is. We're moving people forward
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  Speaker 3: with where they need to go. It's not about making
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  Speaker 3: tons of money off the fares. We get some very
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  Speaker 3: supportive funding the federal and the state level as well
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  Speaker 3: as the local level. So it's a maturing of what
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  Speaker 3: I would say is the transportation process and making sure
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  Speaker 3: that we're hitting those corners where there's some current transit
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  Speaker 3: gaps or deserts if you will, in the two county
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  Speaker 3: now the three county area that we have on a
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  Speaker 3: weekly basis, so yeah, will change a little. I was
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  Speaker 3: just speaking to a group last weekend. There's obviously some
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  Speaker 3: deadheads rides coming out of Dixon going into Oregon before
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  Speaker 3: we actually start picking people up who are going around
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  Speaker 3: those confines of Ogle County. Will those completely be eliminated? No,
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  Speaker 3: they will be more minimized, I would say. With the
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  Speaker 3: addition of the Oregon Office location groundbreaking.
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  Speaker 1: Are we looking at twenty twenty six, Greg, Are we
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  Speaker 1: looking at twenty twenty six to be a real important
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  Speaker 1: time for this or how's that shaping up?
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  Speaker 3: Then, depending on what my funders tell me, I could
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  Speaker 3: even do something before the end of the year if
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  Speaker 3: they would have some concurrence with that, but definitely groundbreaking,
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  Speaker 3: I would say in twenty twenty six, that is a
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  Speaker 3: fair bet. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Gates has the update on the Oregon office construction
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  Speaker 1: moving forward again with Reagan Mass Transit District our executive directors.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Gates joining us today for the update here LGI.
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  Speaker 1: So we talked about the Winnebago County transit services. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: they're going fine, then I understand right in Winnebago County,
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  Speaker 1: everything's you know in the talk you talk just you
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  Speaker 1: just mentioned you know the service.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, more people are learning about the service, as I
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  Speaker 3: had mentioned. I think we're just going to continue to
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  Speaker 3: push the message out there and get to more community events,
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  Speaker 3: which is what we have to have on our radar
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  Speaker 3: very soon, just to keep building that momentum, merely because
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  Speaker 3: I think even when Steve Davis, my assistant director of Operations,
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  Speaker 3: has gone to some community events and talk to people
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  Speaker 3: who have that need, they're a little floored, quite honestly
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  Speaker 3: when they hear the cost to take a ride on
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  Speaker 3: one of our buses if it's a senior, obviously, same
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  Speaker 3: costs that we would charge down here if it's within
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  Speaker 3: their zip code, one dollar one way. If it's same
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  Speaker 3: rule applies for veterans as well as persons with disabilities,
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  Speaker 3: and then for everybody else it's two dollars one way
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  Speaker 3: within their own zip code. If you go outside that
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  Speaker 3: zip code, it's thirty five cents per mile. We cap
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  Speaker 3: it at five dollars one way for out of the
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  Speaker 3: zip code rides. For veterans, seniors, and the disabled. Everybody
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  Speaker 3: else it's the normal thirty five cents per mile one way.
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  Speaker 3: And it seems to be a nice surprise when Steve
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  Speaker 3: has had those conversations with people out there and they
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  Speaker 3: are taken aback that I can afford that There you go,
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  Speaker 3: and that is, you know, you see the lifting of
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  Speaker 3: a barrier that is now allowing for a better quality
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  Speaker 3: of life. And I know that phrase gets used quite
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  Speaker 3: a bit, but I don't think we fully appreciate at
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  Speaker 3: times when some people don't have regular family around them,
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  Speaker 3: they don't want to drive, or they don't have a
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  Speaker 3: regular ride, and all of a sudden something enters the
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  Speaker 3: equation where public transit can serve in that capacity to
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  Speaker 3: get them where they need to go. And I think
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  Speaker 3: that's going to be something that's less worrisome to them
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  Speaker 3: once that conversation takes place. So it's all about that
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  Speaker 3: relationship management. It is about getting the message out and
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  Speaker 3: I think we'll try even harder to just make sure
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  Speaker 3: that that twenty five to twenty eight thousand of rural
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  Speaker 3: Winnebago here allowed and clear that if there is a need,
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  Speaker 3: there is no fill in the blank anymore. It's rugga
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  Speaker 3: mass transit district in partnership with Winnebego County now has
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  Speaker 3: that as an option and again available.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it started back a few months ago and it's
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  Speaker 1: been going again in rural Winnebago County. This is real
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  Speaker 1: Winnebago County, not really affecting the urban Rockford area, but
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  Speaker 1: again working in partnership with that particular transit service again
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  Speaker 1: offering the service in Winnebago County. Greg, one more thing
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  Speaker 1: before we let you go, And now that the survey
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  Speaker 1: has been completed in Lee County, you have to our
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  Speaker 1: attention to Ogo County for the survey information.
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  Speaker 3: BINGO or transit Desert study, which we're doing with NIU,
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  Speaker 3: the Center for Governmental Studies, is shifting to the Ogle
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  Speaker 3: County portion, and what we're going to start doing is
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  Speaker 3: mimicking everything that we've done here in Lee County in
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  Speaker 3: terms of surveys, the stakeholdholder interviews, doing some focus groups,
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  Speaker 3: and getting the word out that we want some of
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  Speaker 3: that feedback information where are those gaps in the transit
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  Speaker 3: picture currently? And quite honestly, it's opening up a dialogue
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  Speaker 3: about transit just in general. It doesn't have to necessarily
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  Speaker 3: focus on public transportation. It's what's minimizing people's ability to
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  Speaker 3: get around in terms of transportation. It could be a
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  Speaker 3: lack of say multi use paths within a given community
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  Speaker 3: that's really restricting them from safely walking throughout their own town.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's a bigger conversation than just focusing only
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  Speaker 3: on public transportation. But we do want to identify those
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  Speaker 3: areas where you know there is a restriction as to
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  Speaker 3: you know, that quality of life piece, what can we
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  Speaker 3: do in terms of stepping in to help fill that
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  Speaker 3: gap and then also at the same time getting some
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  Speaker 3: feedback as to people's awareness of regae mass transit district
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  Speaker 3: we do want to take that away as a positive,
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  Speaker 3: you know, feedback loop to our mt D and how
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  Speaker 3: can we improve if we need to improve, or what
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  Speaker 3: are the benefits that they're seeing in their relationship with
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  Speaker 3: us right now.
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  Speaker 1: We'll it be conducted the same way. GREG will be
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  Speaker 1: online and questions will be asked online.
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  Speaker 3: Then it will be the survey will be the same
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: type the focus groups, which we're hoping to get a
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  Speaker 3: better response from this time in Ogle County with more
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  Speaker 3: people showing up for those, because it's nice to see
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  Speaker 3: those interactions. I was not present for the focus scripts.
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  Speaker 3: I don't need to be present for those, but it's
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  Speaker 3: nice for the interviewers to have that you know in
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  Speaker 3: person and can drill down a little on some of
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  Speaker 3: those statements or additional questions they might have in those
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  Speaker 3: focus groups.
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  Speaker 1: Watch for that to come our way through Reagan Mass
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  Speaker 1: Transit and their online again address at REAGANMTD dot org
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  Speaker 1: and again you'll find information then uh and be asked
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  Speaker 1: to complete survey information as we move forward, because these
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  Speaker 1: surveys are very important to our future of transportation here
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  Speaker 1: in our Ogle County area. To order a ride through
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  Speaker 1: Meagan Rath's Transit your phone number, sir.
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  Speaker 3: A one five two eight eight two one one seven, yep.
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  Speaker 1: Just call that number and order ride and find out
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  Speaker 1: all about Reagan Mass Transit. Take a ride with them,
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: and you know, even if you don't, you know, use
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: them regularly. Just find out about Reagan Mass Transit, join
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: them for a ride, and find out about transportation across
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  Speaker 1: Nuwell and Illinois area. From our gaze at Sinsissippi No
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  Speaker 1: to Reagan Master.
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  Speaker 2: You made the ride as well. You made an interesting
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  Speaker 2: ride as well.
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  Speaker 1: But I have had Greg Gates on and it's been
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  Speaker 1: a pleasure for having you on board with us in
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  Speaker 1: your travels through again those areas to your executive director
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  Speaker 1: position with Reagan Mass Transit. We appreciate your visits and
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  Speaker 1: I thank you so very much for being a part
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  Speaker 1: of our family.
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  Speaker 2: Here at Wixing.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much to.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Gates, our executive director of Reagan Mass Transit, our
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: guest today on the talk line here at Wyxent. Time
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: to go to press with Brandon Clark next to Wyxent.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: Park with all local news.
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  Speaker 3: Can serve in that capacity to get them where they
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  Speaker 3: need to go. And I think that's got to be
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: something that's less worrisome to them once that conversation takes place.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: So it's all about that relationship management. It is about
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: getting the message out and I think we'll try even
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: harder to just make sure that you know that twenty
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  Speaker 3: five to twenty eight thousand of rural Winnebago here allowed
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: and clear that if there is a need, there is
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: no fill in the blank anymore. It's RUGA Mass Transit
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: District in partnership with Winnebago County. Yeah, now has that
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: as an option.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: And again available.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it started back a few months ago and it's
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: been going again in rural Winnebago County. This is rural
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Winnebago County, not really affecting the urban Rockford area, but
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: again working in partnership with that particular transit service, again
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: offering the service in Winnebago County. Greg, one more thing
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: before we let you go, And now that the survey
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: has been completed in Lee County, we shift our attention
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: to Ogle County for the survey information.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: Then BINGO our Transit Desert study which we're doing with NIU,
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: the Center for Governmental Studies is shifting to the Ogle
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: County portion. And what we're going to start doing is
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: mimicking everything that we've done here in Lee County in
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: terms of surveys, stakeholdholder interviews, doing some focus groups and
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: getting the word out that we want some of that
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: feedback information. Where are those gaps in the transit picture currently?
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: And quite honestly, it's opening up a dialogue about transit
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: just in general. It doesn't have to necessarily focus on
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: public transportation. It's what's minimizing people's ability to get around
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: in terms of transportation. It could be a lack of
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: say multi use paths within a given community that's really
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: restricting them from safely walking throughout their own town. So
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: it's it's a bigger conversation than just focusing only on
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: public transportation. But we do want to identify those areas
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: where you know, there is a restriction as to you know,
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: that quality of life piece, what can we do in
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: terms of stepping in to help fill that gap and
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: then also at the same time getting some feedback as
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: to people's awareness of regae mass transit district. We do
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: want to take that away as a positive you know,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: feedback loop to our MTD and how can we improve
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: if we need to improve or what are the benefits
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: that they're seeing in their relationship with us.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Right now, we'll it be conducted the same way. GREG
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: will be online and questions will be asked online.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Then it will be the survey will be the same
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: type the focus groups, which we're hoping to get a
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: better response from this time in Ogle County with more
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: people showing up for those, because it's nice to see
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: those interactions. I was not present for the focus groups.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: I don't need to be present for those, but it's
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: nice for the interviewers to have that you know in
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: person and can drill down a little on some of
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: those statements or additional questions they might have in those
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: focus groups.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Watch for that to come our way through Reagan Mass
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Transit and their online again address at REAGANMTD dot org.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: And again you'll find information then uh and be asked
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: to complete survey information as we move forward, because these
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: surveys are very important to our future of transportation here
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: in our Ogle County area. To order a ride through
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  Speaker 1: Meagan Raths Transit, your.
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  Speaker 3: Phone number sir A one two eight eight seven yep.
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  Speaker 1: Just call that number and order ride and find out
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  Speaker 1: all about Reagan Mass Transit. Take a ride with them,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, even if you don't, you know, use
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  Speaker 1: them regularly. Just find out about Reagan Mass Transit, join
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  Speaker 1: them for a ride and find out about transportation across
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  Speaker 1: our Norwell and Illinois area. From our gaze at Sinsissippi
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  Speaker 1: to Reagan Master you've made the ride as well.
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  Speaker 2: You made an interesting ride as well.
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  Speaker 1: But I have had Greg Gates on and it's been
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: a pleasure, sir, having you on board with us in
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: your travels through again those areas through your to year
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: executive director position with Reagan Mass Transit. We appreciate your
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: visits and I thank you so very much for being
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  Speaker 1: a part of our family here at Wixing.
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  Speaker 3: Greg, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 1: To Greg Gates are executive director of Reagan Mass Transit.
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  Speaker 1: Our guest today on the talk line here at Wixen.
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  Speaker 1: Time to go to press with Brandon Clark next at Wyxent.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Brandon Clark with Shaw Local News.