{"id":922394,"date":"2020-09-14T12:37:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T17:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=922394"},"modified":"2020-09-15T12:37:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T17:37:01","slug":"etcog-administrator-honored-with-state-wide-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=922394","title":{"rendered":"ETCOG administrator honored with state-wide award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/09\/Go-Bus-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-922396\" \/>KILGORE &#8212; The East Texas Council of Governments announced Monday, the Director of Transportation, Vince Huerta, was celebrated for outstanding performance with the Texas Transit Association. Huerta received the TTA&#8217;s Outstanding Public Transportation General Manager Award for 2020. Notable accomplishments during his tenure include a 40% increase in ridership since 2018, drastically increased safety protocols, brought in a customized fleet, and further built procedural and monetary efficiencies. With the help of staff, Huerta was able to initiate fare reduction to $2 per trip and eliminate fares altogether for veterans and active military personnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE &#8212; The East Texas Council of Governments announced Monday, the Director of Transportation, Vince Huerta, was celebrated for outstanding performance with the Texas Transit Association. Huerta received the TTA&#8217;s Outstanding Public Transportation General Manager Award for 2020. Notable accomplishments during his tenure include a 40% increase in ridership since 2018, drastically increased safety protocols, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=922394\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ETCOG administrator honored with state-wide award<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"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-922394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 00:43:53","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\/922394","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=922394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922399,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922394\/revisions\/922399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}