{"id":156608,"date":"2026-04-03T20:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156608\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T20:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:23:10","slug":"lanta-schedules-public-meeting-for-new-round-of-possible-service-cuts-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/156608\/","title":{"rendered":"LANTA schedules public meeting for new round of possible service cuts | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – About two months after making service cuts, LANTA is considering doing it again.<\/p>\n

According to a notice posted on the transit agency’s website<\/a>, LANTA is proposing scaling back service on nearly two dozen bus routes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A public hearing about the proposed changes, which would take effect on Monday, June 15, will be held later this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to LANTA’s website, the proposal calls for changes to 21 routes. In almost all of the cases, the ‘change’ is a cancelation of one or more trips. Only one route- 210- would add trips.\u00a0<\/p>\n

See the complete list here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The routes with no changes would be:\u00a0216, 319, 323, 325, 402, 403, 409, 410, 413, 422, 423, 431, 441, 501, 502, 506, 601, 613, 701, 702 and 703, plus Enhanced Bus Service (EBS) Blue Line and Green Line.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On January 26, LANTA enacted changes to its Blue Line, as well as 13 other routes. At the time, LANTA told 69 News the service cuts represented about a 5% reduction in service.<\/p>\n

Also, last month, LANTA enacted its first fare increase in more than a decade.<\/p>\n

Those changes came after a much more dire prediction: in May of 2025, LANTA said it was dealing with a state funding shortfall amounting to an “annual recurring unfunded deficit of approximately $8 million on the bus system.”<\/p>\n

LANTA warned that a 20% cut to fixed route bus service and a 25% fare increase were possibilities. That didn’t come to pass.<\/p>\n

69 News reached out to LANTA on Thursday and Friday for more information about the latest possible changes, and the reasons for them, but LANTA did not respond.\u00a0<\/p>\n

LANTA will hold a public meeting on the proposal on Monday, April 29 at\u00a060 W. Broad Street in Bethlehem, from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

LANTA recommends registering for the meeting<\/a> ahead of time. The meeting also will be available virtually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – About two months after making service cuts, LANTA is considering doing it again. According to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,232,153,155,154,1391,433,805],"class_list":["post-156608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown-area","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-lehigh-county","tag-lehighvalley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156608","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=156608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}