{"id":149899,"date":"2016-07-13T09:06:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T14:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/?p=149899"},"modified":"2017-04-17T09:38:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T14:38:12","slug":"bis-man-transit-proposed-changes-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/149899\/bis-man-transit-proposed-changes-rejected","title":{"rendered":"Bis-Man Transit Proposed Changes Rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst a crowded public hearing, the Bismarck City Commission voted against\u00a0Bis-Man Transit&#8217;s proposal\u00a0to alter\u00a0bus services in the area. The vote came after more than two hours of discussion.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed changes were a reaction to\u00a0funding\u00a0cuts\u00a0at both the state and federal level. <a href=\"http:\/\/bismantransit.com\/files\/2016\/06\/Fixed-Route-Paratransit-Changes-V5-Packet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">As outlined in the proposal<\/a>, Capital Area Transit (CAT) &#8211; the public busing system implemented in 2004 &#8211; would have seen its fixed routes reduced from 12 to 6, with an\u00a0extended geography that included University of Mary.<\/p>\n<p>There were also proposed changes to the paratransit system that would have changed it to a curb-to-curb service that aligned closely with CAT&#8217;s operating hours.<\/p>\n<p>Bis-Man Transit was\u00a0encouraged to seek further feedback from riders before\u00a0further consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire proposal <a href=\"http:\/\/bismantransit.com\/files\/2016\/06\/Fixed-Route-Paratransit-Changes-V5-Packet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst a crowded public hearing, the Bismarck City Commission voted against\u00a0Bis-Man Transit&#8217;s proposal\u00a0to alter\u00a0bus services in the area. The vote came after more than two hours of discussion. The proposed changes were a reaction to\u00a0funding\u00a0cuts\u00a0at both the state and federal level. As outlined in the proposal, Capital Area Transit (CAT) &#8211; the public busing system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,216,2411,1279,519],"tags":[1227,333,312,1063,1064],"class_list":["post-149899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bismarck-news","category-featured","category-politics","category-lincoln-news","category-mandan-news","tag-bis-man-transit","tag-city-commission","tag-government","tag-home","tag-ticker"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}