{"id":475196,"date":"2026-10-24T06:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T06:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475196\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T06:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T06:02:18","slug":"houston-metro-offering-free-rides-to-from-the-polls-on-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475196\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston METRO offering free rides to, from the polls on Election Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/rs17586_local-bus_lpr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-31bc2d2e=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">HOUSTON &#8211; METRO is providing free transit services to help Houston-area residents reach polling locations on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>   Free METRO rides to voting polls <\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">To take advantage of the free service, riders simply need to show their voter registration card to a METRO bus operator when boarding.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">METRO says free ride services will only be available on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3. Standard fares remain in effect for early voting days and all other dates.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The eligible METRO services include:<\/p>\n<p> METRORailLocal bus routesMETROLiftMETRO curb2curbCommunity Connector <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KRIV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">&#8220;Every voter deserves the opportunity to make their voice heard, and transportation should never stand in the way,&#8221; said METRO Board Chair Elizabeth Gonzalez Brock. &#8220;I want to thank Mayor Whitmire for his continued leadership and for continuing this partnership. METRO is proud to do its part by helping Houston-area residents get to the polls and exercise one of our most important civic rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from this article was provided by METRO.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/politics\/election\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Election<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox26houston.com\/tag\/top-stories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Stories<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article HOUSTON &#8211; METRO is providing free transit services to help Houston-area residents reach polling locations on Election&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[409,56,58,57,223,287,2053],"class_list":["post-475196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-election","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475196","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=475196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}