{"id":144326,"date":"2026-03-21T02:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144326\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T02:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:58:11","slug":"lanta-fare-increases-coming-monday-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144326\/","title":{"rendered":"LANTA fare increases coming Monday | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; LANTA&#8217;s first major fare increase in more than a decade is now just days away.<\/p>\n<p>The new rates take effect on Monday, March 23.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new structure, a single bus ride will cost $2.50 instead of $2.00.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A day pass will increase from $4 to $5.<\/p>\n<p>A 31-day pass will cost $70, up from $60.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lantabus.com\/fares\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LANTA&#8217;s website<\/a> has a complete list of the changes.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the transit agency is eliminating transfers currently issued on board its buses.<\/p>\n<p>The Senior Pass (for those 65+) will remain free.<\/p>\n<p>LANTA last increased the price of a single ride 18 years ago; multi-ride prices went up in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>LANTA said the fare hike is needed to keep pace with inflation and maintain a sustainable transit system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; LANTA&#8217;s first major fare increase in more than a decade is now just days away.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,43588,4084,28],"class_list":["post-144326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lanta","tag-lehigh-street","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}