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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 30, 2006

FIFTH STREET RE-OPENING:
METRO DOWNTOWN BUS STOPS CHANGE TUESDAY, APRIL 4

CINCINNATI -- Effective Tuesday, April 4, Metro routes will return to the downtown bus stops that they used before the brief Fifth Street closure due to Fountain Square garage construction:

Returning to the Westin Hotel bus stop:

• Routes: 6, 10, 32, 33, 40X, 46, 66, 67, 77X
• Routes (a.m. only): 2X, 3, 3X, 44X

Returning to the Fifth & Vine bus stop:

• Routes: 1, 6, 10, 25X (p.m. only), 27, 28, 32, 33, 40X, 46, 49, 50, 66, 77X

More detailed information about the bus stops and downtown bus routing is available at www.go-metro.com, on buses, from MetroCenter phone information at 621-4455, and from Metro staff at downtown bus stops.

Although Fifth Street will reopen Sunday evening, April 2, Metro buses will not go back to the pre-Fifth-Street-closure bus stops until Tuesday, April 4 due to Reds’ Opening Day detours on Monday, April 3.

Metro is a nonprofit public service of Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority, providing about 22 million trips per year in Greater Cincinnati.

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