{"id":33238,"date":"2025-11-04T20:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33238\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:10:10","slug":"fort-myers-approves-funding-for-downtown-trolley-routes-gb-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33238\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers approves funding for downtown trolley routes | GB Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fort Myers City Council on Nov. 3 approved an interlocal agreement with Lee County to continue operating the free seasonal trolley routes serving the downtown River District.<\/p>\n<p>Routes 500 and 505 will run from Nov. 20 through April 22, 2026. The total cost of $711,867 will be funded by a $355,933 Florida Department of Transportation grant, $268,130 from the Fort Myers Community Redevelopment Agency, $84,804 in developer contributions and $3,000 from the city\u2019s general fund.<\/p>\n<p>Lee County will provide four trolleys operating daily from about 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. The service will not run on New Year\u2019s Day, Thanksgiving Day or Christmas Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Fort Myers City Council on Nov. 3 approved an interlocal agreement with Lee County to continue operating&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3335,325],"class_list":["post-33238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-gb-daily","tag-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33238","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=33238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}