{"id":698523,"date":"2026-05-28T03:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/698523\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T03:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T03:41:14","slug":"calgary-councillors-defer-decision-on-free-fare-zone-approve-downtown-police-station-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/698523\/","title":{"rendered":"Calgary councillors defer decision on free fare zone, approve downtown police station study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\tCalgary&#8217;s downtown free fare zone remains in place for now after city council deferred a decison on its future.  Some on council argued scrapping it will improve public safety, but some advocates aren&#8217;t buying it.  As Adam MacVicar reports, they&#8217;re instead pointing to another decision by council to explore bringing back a police station to the downtown core as a better way to improve safety.  Adam MacVicar reports. \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calgary&#8217;s downtown free fare zone remains in place for now after city council deferred a decison on its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,71388,177137,254568,12459,53595,48,24156,254569,244238,167926],"class_list":["post-698523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-city-council","tag-calgary-city-hall","tag-calgary-downtown","tag-calgary-police-service","tag-calgary-transit","tag-canada","tag-city-of-calgary","tag-downtown-police-station","tag-free-fare-zone","tag-short-clip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}