{"id":367701,"date":"2026-06-19T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/367701\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T22:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:17:08","slug":"get-bus-extends-downtown-toucan-trolley-pilot-program-for-six-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/367701\/","title":{"rendered":"GET Bus extends downtown Toucan Trolley pilot program for six months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Toucan Trolley will keep rolling in downtown Bakersfield for at least six more months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/golden-empire-transit-launches-toucan-trolley-for-downtown-and-old-town-kern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RELATED: Golden Empire Transit launches Toucan Trolley for downtown and Old Town Kern<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GET Bus board of directors has approved a six-month extension of the downtown trolley pilot program, which launched in January. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Photo: Greater Bakersfield Chamber (Facebook)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1bd44724-7e36-4019-ae92-28d782a277a2-TOUCANTROLLEY.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Greater Bakersfield Chamber (Facebook)<\/p>\n<p>The service was created to improve connections between Old Town Kern and the downtown business corridor.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the extension will allow them to continue evaluating ridership demand, mobility benefits and community feedback before making any long-term decisions about the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Toucan Trolley will keep rolling in downtown Bakersfield for at least six more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-367701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}