{"id":45615,"date":"2018-07-12T21:09:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T21:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=45615"},"modified":"2018-08-08T14:40:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T14:40:25","slug":"acc-bus-pass-will-be-free-beginning-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/07\/12\/acc-bus-pass-will-be-free-beginning-august\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC bus pass will be free beginning August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eligible ACC students, faculty, and staff can ride Capital Metro for free with an ACC Green Pass beginning fall semester.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Board of Trustees voted Monday, July 9, to eliminate the $25 Green Pass user fee when it approved a new interlocal agreement with Capital Metro. The five-year agreement means ACC will pay Capital Metro an $429,000 annual fee in its first year in exchange for passes for its students, faculty, and staff.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Green Pass allows free rides on all Metro bus and rail services, including its priority service with fewer stops for faster commuting.\u00a0 The pass also\u00a0allows unlimited Special Transit Services (Accessibility Service). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Students and employees may obtain a Green Pass at a Cashier Office or Campus Administration Office. The pass is valid for one semester. The fall semester pass will be available <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">August 13, 2018 through January 13, 2019<\/span><\/span>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For more information, visit the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincc.edu\/offices\/environmental-stewardship\/go-green\/transportation\/green-pass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Green Pass webpage<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eligible ACC students, faculty, and staff can ride Capital Metro for free with an ACC Green Pass beginning fall semester. The Board of Trustees voted Monday, July 9, to eliminate the $25 Green Pass user &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/07\/12\/acc-bus-pass-will-be-free-beginning-august\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3556,"featured_media":45616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,15,17,19],"tags":[274,1968,1967,1648,1969,1970],"class_list":["post-45615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-community","category-current-students","category-facstaff-news","category-news-and-announcements","category-students-and-alumni","tag-board-of-trustees","tag-bus","tag-capital-metro","tag-green-pass","tag-rail","tag-transportation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}