{"id":2455,"date":"2021-11-04T23:05:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T23:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2021-11-04T23:13:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T23:13:31","slug":"mayoral-executive-order-expand-free-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/mayoral-executive-order-expand-free-transit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayoral Executive Order: Expand Free Transit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s happening? Seattle Mayor signed an Executive Order extending free transportation to middle school students, expanded from the current free for high school students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? &nbsp;More than 13,500 high school students in the city participate in the current program, this expansion could add as many as 8500 students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? The goal is to free up roadways and teach transit use to younger generations &amp; will improve diversity and inclusion by offering greater access to schools for BIPOC students who have  disproportionately less access to transportation options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governing.com\/next\/seattle-extends-climate-policies-including-students-free-transit?utm_term=Seattle%20Extends%20Climate%20Policies%2C%20Including%20Students%5Cu2019%20Free%20Transit&amp;utm_campaign=In%20Virginia%2C%20Republicans%20Win%20First%20Key%20Contest%20of%20the%20Biden%20Era&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=email\">Seattle Times via Governing | Seattle Extends Climate Policies, Including Students\u2019 Free Transit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening? Seattle Mayor signed an Executive Order extending free transportation to middle school students, expanded from the current free for high school students. Why is this important? &nbsp;More than 13,500 high school students in the city participate in the current program, this expansion could add as many as 8500 students. How will this be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}