Fifth Anniversary of Silver Spring Transit Center Groundbreaking Arrives
ACT Celebrates With A Contest
Guess When The Transit Center Will Open And Win A Free Dinner
Press release issued September 25, 2013
Click here for contest entry form.
As the fifth anniversary of the Silver Spring Transit Center's Sept. 26, 2008 groundbreaking arrives, the Action Committee for Transit is celebrating(?) with a contest. Join ACT and guess when the transit center will open for regular bus service. The most accurate guess wins dinner for 2 at 8407 kitchen bar, one of Silver Spring's premier restaurants, when the center opens.
ACT volunteers will pass out entry forms in front of the Transit Center from 6:30 to 9:30 am on Thursday, the date of the anniversary. The entry form and complete contest rules are on ACT's website, www.actfortransit.org.
The event five years ago was actually the third groundbreaking for the transit center. The first such ceremony was held 13 years ago in September, 2000. At that time, then-County Executive Doug Duncan announced that the transit center would be finished by 2003.
ACT president Tina Slater welcomed contest participants into the advocacy group. “Your support will help us push to get the transit center finished, build the Purple Line, and upgrade transit throughout the county,” she said. “But I have to give you one warning. We make absolutely no promises about when the prize will be awarded.”