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In other business, the council:
•voted to recommend to the Greensboro Transit Authority a new rate of $1.10 per ride for the city’s bus service for the disabled. This would replace the oft-criticized rate of $72 for 60 rides and $15 for 10 rides, which was supposed to go into effect in January.
GTA will take up the issue on Thursday. The city must hold a public hearing before it becomes official, so the new rate could be implemented in February at the earliest.
The decision means the new rates won’t go into effect Jan. 1.
•agreed to give the old Cascade Saloon at 408-410 South Elm St. a landmark designation, despite strong opposition from the N.C. Railroad and Norfolk Southern.
The building is on some of the railroads’ property, and attorneys for those companies argued that they might need to demolish the building in the future.