{"id":99460,"date":"2019-12-08T13:22:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T21:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/kansas-city-becomes-first-major-american-city-with-universal-fare-free-public-transit"},"modified":"2019-12-08T13:22:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T21:22:40","slug":"kansas-city-becomes-first-major-american-city-with-universal-fare-free-public-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/kansas-city-becomes-first-major-american-city-with-universal-fare-free-public-transit","title":{"rendered":"Kansas City becomes first major American city with universal fare-free public transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kansas-city-becomes-first-major-american-city-with-universal-fare-free-public-transit.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, Kansas City became the first major American city to have fare-free public transit.<\/p>\n<p>City council voted unanimously to make city bus routes fare-free, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kshb.com\/news\/local-news\/kcmo-city-council-to-decide-on-free-bus-fares?fbclid=IwAR3F24reFOXf0fymA2T4lsxvO6VI6EOYceINuVLrYiVD4bK5QqoSQMBOLcI\">reports KSHB<\/a>, directing the city manager to develop and enact a plan. The city\u2019s light rail was already free.<\/p>\n<p>Free bus service, which is expected to cost about $8 million, has been pitched as a major help to low-income residents who rely on transit to commute to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Kansas City became the first major American city to have fare-free public transit. City council voted unanimously to make city bus routes fare-free, reports KSHB, directing the city manager to develop and enact a plan. The city\u2019s light rail was already free. Free bus service, which is expected to cost about $8 million, has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}