{"id":922730,"date":"2020-09-15T13:41:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T18:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=922730"},"modified":"2020-09-16T13:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T18:41:00","slug":"gobus-highlights-expanded-service-in-smith-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=922730","title":{"rendered":"GoBus highlights expanded service in Smith County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/09\/Go-Bus-fleet-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-922734\" \/>KILGORE &#8212; The Director of Transportation for East Texas Council of Governments, Vince Huerta, was recently commemorated by the Texas Transit Association. On Tuesday Huerta told KTBB, &#8220;It&#8217;s a team accomplishment. The staff should be the ones receiving the award.&#8221; Huerta continued,&#8221;We are here to serve the community, we are public transit on the rural side of things. So certainly anyone can ride the bus.&#8221;  More information can be found by clicking the link. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gobustransit.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.gobustransit.com\/<\/a>. Notable accomplishments during his tenure include a 40% increase in ridership since 2018.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2020\/09\/Coverage-area-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-922735\" \/>Lindsay Vanderbilt told KTBB with Huerta&#8217;s leadership GoBus has expanded and gotten smaller at the same time. &#8220;Leaders were asking questions about these big buses having a lot of empty seats. What does that mean on gas? Well Vince heard their critiques and found a solution. What we are doing there we have a new fleet, 12 smaller models they use less gas.&#8221; Vanderbilt continued, &#8220;they are more efficient, they are easier for our drivers to operate and therefore improves our safety performance as well.&#8221; Huerta was able to initiate a  fare reduction to $2 per trip and eliminate fares altogether for veterans and active military personnel. Huerta went on to talk about a new initiative in Smith County, that he hopes will spread to other counties. &#8220;We are starting out service in the evenings and the weekends.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE &#8212; The Director of Transportation for East Texas Council of Governments, Vince Huerta, was recently commemorated by the Texas Transit Association. On Tuesday Huerta told KTBB, &#8220;It&#8217;s a team accomplishment. The staff should be the ones receiving the award.&#8221; Huerta continued,&#8221;We are here to serve the community, we are public transit on the rural &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=922730\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GoBus highlights expanded service in Smith County<\/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-922730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 20:15:04","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\/922730","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=922730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922736,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922730\/revisions\/922736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=922730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=922730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=922730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}