{"id":271958,"date":"2026-04-29T22:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/271958\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T22:08:12","slug":"citibus-former-gm-john-wilson-honored-at-texas-transit-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/271958\/","title":{"rendered":"Citibus, former GM John Wilson honored at Texas Transit conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Texas Transit Association honored Lubbock\u2019s bus system and its former leader with statewide recognition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The awards were given Wednesday afternoon at the association\u2019s annual conference. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Citibus is celebrating its 50th year of service. It also received the Outstanding Urban Transit System Award. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">John Wilson, who led Citibus as its general manage from 1983 to 2012, also received the Lifetime Achievement Award. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The annual conference includes the state bus \u201cRoadeo\u201d, a competition and way to highlight the skill of some of the best bus operators and mechanics in the state. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Texas Transit Association honored Lubbock\u2019s bus system and its former leader with statewide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[47003,447,64,101102,319,251,168,170,169,101103],"class_list":["post-271958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-citibus","tag-community","tag-events","tag-john-wilson","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-texas-transit-association"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}