{"id":47733,"date":"2024-08-07T07:30:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T12:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=47733"},"modified":"2024-08-07T07:56:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T12:56:24","slug":"capmetro-green-pass-connects-students-to-acc-campuses-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2024\/08\/07\/capmetro-green-pass-connects-students-to-acc-campuses-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"CapMetro Green Pass connects students to ACC campuses for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2024\/08\/RS22650_20230324-CapMetro-GreenPass-ca-057_lpr-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2024\/08\/RS22650_20230324-CapMetro-GreenPass-ca-057_lpr-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2024\/08\/RS22650_20230324-CapMetro-GreenPass-ca-057_lpr-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2024\/08\/RS22650_20230324-CapMetro-GreenPass-ca-057_lpr-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2024\/08\/RS22650_20230324-CapMetro-GreenPass-ca-057_lpr-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2024\/08\/RS22650_20230324-CapMetro-GreenPass-ca-057_lpr-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2024\/08\/RS22650_20230324-CapMetro-GreenPass-ca-057_lpr-1-1320x880.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/81\/2024\/08\/RS22650_20230324-CapMetro-GreenPass-ca-057_lpr-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Get to and from Austin Community College District (ACC) campuses for FREE, with the CapMetro Green Pass. Just in time for the fall semester, the Board of Trustees unanimously approved a one-year contract extension during its regular meeting on Monday, August 5.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the Green Pass, most students and employees can travel effortlessly (and for free) across the entire CapMetro transit network, including rides on:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>CapMetro Fixed Route Service,&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Express Bus Service,&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>MetroAccess,&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>MetroRail services,&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>and limited-area shared ride service, Pickup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Who\u2019s Eligible for the Free Green Pass<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Green Passes are available to students enrolled in ACC credit classes, <a href=\"https:\/\/adulted.austincc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adult Education<\/a> students, and ACC faculty and staff. Starting in fall 2024, active hourly employees also will be eligible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out the Green Pass Guide <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It has all of the steps to activate a digital Green Pass. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1DMkz5oqZVfY6XEr_78-h-qjoA1eRIBTD\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ACC Green Pass Guide- English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1DGQbe7974k85mxhorjDDZd8pRgW_yKs7\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ACC Green Pass Guide- Spanish<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Applications for fall 2024 will be available starting Monday, August 12.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/offices.austincc.edu\/energy-and-sustainability\/transportation\/green-pass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACC&#8217;s Green Pass web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get to and from Austin Community College District (ACC) campuses for FREE, with the CapMetro Green Pass. Just in time for the fall semester, the Board of Trustees unanimously approved a one-year contract extension during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2024\/08\/07\/capmetro-green-pass-connects-students-to-acc-campuses-for-free\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3930,"featured_media":47734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,15,17,19],"tags":[2347,1648,2769,2770,113,1970],"class_list":["post-47733","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-capmetro","tag-green-pass","tag-metrorail","tag-pickup","tag-sustainability","tag-transportation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47733","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\/3930"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}