Completed and dedicated in 2003, the transportation center is multi-modal. Meaning it serves as a city parking ramp, the Sioux City Transit Center for the city bus system, a Jefferson Bus Line Depot and has bicycle parking.
Despite being a smaller city, less than 100,000 people, Sioux City does have an ugly past when it comes to civil rights of minorities and certain groups of people. At one point in the city's history because of what was considered the moral majority laws were actually passed in the state of Iowa and Sioux City that discriminated against a certain part of the population because of their sexual orientation.
It could be said this structure and its name stand as a testament to the work of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement and the continued efforts to guarantee no one is discriminated against because of the color of their skin, their religious faith, gender or sexual orientation.
At the entrance to the transportation center in Sioux City stands a pedestal with a bust of Dr. King and a plaque with his most famous quote, "I have a dream".
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