{"id":237494,"date":"2013-01-31T12:44:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T18:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=237494"},"modified":"2013-02-01T12:26:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T18:26:51","slug":"longview-transit-plans-route-to-gladewater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=237494","title":{"rendered":"Longview Transit Plans Route to Gladewater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=237624\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-237624\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/01\/Longview-Transit.jpg\" alt=\"Longview Transit\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-237624\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW \u2014 As Longview\u2019s transit system enters its 10th year, data released Tuesday showed city buses carried nearly a quarter-million passengers in 2012. And with ridership up 20 percent from the year before, Longview Transit officials are casting an eye westward, planning to launch a new route March 1 between Longview and Gladewater. KETK and the Longview News-Journal report the proposed Route 7 would loop on Marshall Avenue and Cotton Street in Longview before leaving the city on U.S. Highway 80 heading west. The city bus would then loop through Gladewater hitting three stops before heading back to Longview via U.S. 80. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a proposed start date of March 1. Longview Transit is already looking at the route, and we believe it will tie in with what we have in place right now,\u201d said Longview Transit Director of Operations Tequita Mumphrey. Mumphrey addressed members of Longview\u2019s Public Transportation Advisory Committee on Tuesday. The Gladewater City Council agreed to support its portion of the route in the council\u2019s January 17 meeting, while city of Longview officials will address the proposed route at a council meeting in February. If accepted, Route 7 will begin operating March 1 and will run until August, giving Longview Transit officials time to gather data on the use and response to the bus route. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u2014 As Longview\u2019s transit system enters its 10th year, data released Tuesday showed city buses carried nearly a quarter-million passengers in 2012. And with ridership up 20 percent from the year before, Longview Transit officials are casting an eye westward, planning to launch a new route March 1 between Longview and Gladewater. KETK and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=237494\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Longview Transit Plans Route to Gladewater<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 04:05:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237494"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237716,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237494\/revisions\/237716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}