{"id":17681,"date":"2015-02-04T14:06:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T21:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=17681"},"modified":"2015-02-04T14:07:12","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T21:07:12","slug":"free-ride-mountain-metro-offers-service-to-uccs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=17681","title":{"rendered":"Free ride: Mountain Metro offers service to UCCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/kaiser_ltlcropped_0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17682\" src=\"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/kaiser_ltlcropped_0-300x128.jpg\" alt=\"kaiser_ltlcropped_0\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/kaiser_ltlcropped_0-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/kaiser_ltlcropped_0-555x237.jpg 555w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/kaiser_ltlcropped_0-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/kaiser_ltlcropped_0.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>UCCS faculty, staff and students will have the opportunity to test a sustainable way to get to work, shopping or just to see Colorado Springs from a new perspective Feb. 23-March 1.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain Metro Transit will offer anyone with UCCS identification free passage on a city bus during those dates. The effort, according to Jim Spice, executive director, Parking and Transportation Services, is intended to eliminate a perceived barrier to public transportation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never ridden a city bus,&#8221; Spice said. &#8220;But I plan to. I want to see how they operate and be able to tell people public transportation in our community is a cost-effective, environmentally sound way to get to campus or to get around town.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to free passage, riders who show UCCS identification will receive discounts to Poor Richard&#8217;s bookstore, toy store, restaurant and wine bar in the 300 block of N. Tejon.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Parking and Transportation Services, <a href=\"mailto:parking@uccs.edu\">parking@uccs.edu<\/a> or 255-3528.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>UCCS faculty, staff and students will have the opportunity to test a sustainable way to get to work, shopping or just to see Colorado Springs from a new perspective Feb. 23-March 1. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=17681\" title=\"Free ride: Mountain Metro offers service to UCCS\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-events","category-upcoming-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/kaiser_ltlcropped_0-300x128.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-4Bb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17683,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17681\/revisions\/17683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}