{"id":653,"date":"2016-12-08T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T19:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/12\/08\/5-steps-houston-took-to-up-bus-ridership\/"},"modified":"2016-12-08T19:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T19:38:00","slug":"5-steps-houston-took-to-up-bus-ridership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/5-steps-houston-took-to-up-bus-ridership\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Steps Houston Took to Up Bus Ridership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With years of planning, the City of Houston launched a revamped bus system in 2015. Here&#8217;s how:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reworked bus routes and\u00a0stops<\/li>\n<li>decreased wait times<\/li>\n<li>simplified routes<\/li>\n<li>made maps easier to read<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ridership in the last 10 months is up 175,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2016\/12\/08\/texas-transit-agencies-eye-bus-changes-after-rider\/?utm_source=Texas+Tribune+Master&amp;utm_campaign=868726e01a-trib-newsletters&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_d9a68d8efc-868726e01a-101369977&amp;mc_cid=868726e01a&amp;mc_eid=45089445a0\">Texas Tribune |\u00a0Texas transit agencies eye bus changes after ridership jump in Houston<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridemetro.org\/Pages\/HowToRideMetro.aspx\">Houston Metro | How to Ride\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With years of planning, the City of Houston launched a revamped bus system in 2015. Here&#8217;s how:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reworked bus routes and\u00a0stops<\/li>\n<li>decreased wait times<\/li>\n<li>simplified routes<\/li>\n<li>made maps easier to read<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ridership in the last 10 months is up 175,000.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2016\/12\/08\/texas-transit-agencies-eye-bus-changes-after-rider\/?utm_source=Texas+Tribune+Master&amp;utm_campaign=868726e01a-trib-newsletters&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_d9a68d8efc-868726e01a-101369977&amp;mc_cid=868726e01a&amp;mc_eid=45089445a0\">Texas Tribune |\u00a0Texas transit agencies eye bus changes after ridership jump in Houston<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridemetro.org\/Pages\/HowToRideMetro.aspx\">Houston Metro | How to Ride\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-government","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}