Every year Cedar Rapids hosts the Freedom Festival, three weeks of festivities that lead up to the 4th of July. Many of the events require you to have a Freedom Festival button to attend, and the buttons are only $3. That $3 button also gets you free bus rides for the duration of the Freedom Festival. I didn’t get to this post right away, but there are still two weeks left of the festival, more than enough to make the $3 a steal!
Cedar Rapids sent out the following press release:
“CR Transit is offering free bus rides to anyone wearing an official 2010 Freedom Festival Button through July 4th. CR Transit buses visit all Freedom Festival event locations, making attending daytime events easy and affordable for the entire family. Anyone can find a bus that goes to their event by visiting the website at www.cedar-rapids.org and selecting the City Buses link at the bottom of every page. Ride Route 10 to see the Zoo Man performance at the Cedar Rapids library on June 17th or hop on Route 7 to check out the 100 Adventure base at the Kirkwood Campus on June 18th. CR Transit is working to help families enjoy all the City of Cedar Rapids has to offer this summer.”
I like that they’re promoting both the Freedom Festival events and the routes that can be taken to get there. Let’s see more of this!
The other deal is summer fares for students. Each summer CR Transit reduces the fare for students 18 and younger, presumably to encourage them to use transit to travel safely around the city. That makes their fare only $0.50, but only applies to cash (no discounted passes). This deal last from June 14th to August 21st this year, so get your students out exploring the community on the cheap, or better yet, getting them to a summer job to make some money!
More information can be found on CR Transit’s site.
