{"id":105450,"date":"2026-01-04T19:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T19:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/105450\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T19:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T19:23:11","slug":"fares-resume-for-hart-bus-route-1-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/105450\/","title":{"rendered":"Fares resume for HART Bus Route 1 on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Riders of the HART bus between downtown Tampa and the University of South Florida will start paying for that trip starting Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Route 1 has been free to increase ridership. The Hillsborough County Transit Authority said it worked, and the route saw a ridership increase of 45 percent.<\/p>\n<p>While the Tampa City Council decided not to keep the free fares going, they did approve $1 million in upgrades for the route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014\u00a0Riders of the HART bus between downtown Tampa and the University of South Florida will start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2175,276,115,275,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278,2177,11901,2032,835],"class_list":["post-105450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-traffic-and-transit","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories","tag-traffic-and-transit","tag-transit","tag-trending-topics","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}