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<h2 style="font-size: 200%;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</h2>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">March 2, 2017</p>
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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:200%;"><h3 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 170%;">Parking, transportation information for True False Film Festival weekend</h3>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - <p style="display:inline;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the community welcomes residents and visitors for the True/ False Film Festival March 2- 5, City of Columbia officials want participants to be aware of parking and transportation information.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The City's public transit system, COMO Connect, will offer free public transportation to and from the event. COMO Connect will provide free rides on all of the bus system's fixed routes for the entire city Thursday through Saturday, including an additional festival route with extended hours and additional stops near venue locations (map attached below). All COMO Connect routes are ADA accessible.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">COMO Connect fixed routes begin at 6:25 a.m. and end at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday. Saturday routes begin at 10 a.m. and end at 8 p.m. There will be a special route called the True/False Loop that will operate from 9 a.m. until 1:30 a.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The special True/False Loop will be the only route in service on Sunday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Free routes apply to all customers on the fixed bus routes during the festival. No special pass or ticket is required to board for free. For maps, live bus tracking and more information on bus routes, visit </span><a href="http://www.comoconnect.org"><span style="font-weight: 400;">www.COMOConnect.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> or download the free app on your smartphone, search COMO Connect.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Parking will be enforced as usual during the festival. Enforcement hours are as follows:</span></p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Downtown parking garages are free after 6 p.m. on Thursday and Friday and are not enforced on Saturday and Sunday.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">On-street parking is enforced between the hours of 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday and is not enforced on Sunday. </span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Downtown City parking lots are enforced between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on Thursday and Friday and are not enforced on Saturday or Sunday.</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For parking enforcement information, visit </span><a href="http://www.como.gov/publicworks/parking"><span style="font-weight: 400;">www.CoMo.gov/publicworks/parking</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Due to art installations on Ninth Street, the block between Elm and Locust will be closed to traffic throughout the duration of the festival. </span></div>
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