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Media Relations Contact:
Morgan Lyons
Mark A. Ball
March 18, 2010
DART hopes rally boosts census participation
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) officials rallied employees at a March 18 [web-archive
event aimed at encouraging widespread participation in the 2010 U.S. Census. version includes
Speakers at the rally included DART Board Chairman Bill Velasco, media]
President/Executive Director Gary Thomas, Regional Census Director Gabriel Sanchez and Dallas
Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Pauline Medrano. Employees were given an opportunity to tour a U. S.
Census Bureau traveling public exhibit and see a DART bus wrapped with Census 2010
information.
DART's Thomas told employees that making sure DART gets its fair share of the billions in available
funding is reason enough to ensure as accurate a count as possible.
"We need to make everyone aware of the importance of the census," Thomas said.
"If we do not get a good accurate count from the region, funding local transportation projects will
miss out," he said. "Everyone needs to understand that this will affect our quality of life for the next
10 years."
Eight specially wrapped buses will be used to spread the word about the census across DART's 13
member cities. The Census Bureau began mailing out census forms on March 15. Forms are due by
April 1.
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One of eight buses wrapped with Census 2010 information that will be used throughout DART's 13
member cities for the next four weeks.
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Lyons, Morgan & Ball, Mark. DART hopes rally boosts census participation, text, March 18, 2010; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1226176/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART).