{"id":126764,"date":"2024-01-25T10:46:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T15:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126764"},"modified":"2024-01-25T10:46:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T15:46:57","slug":"new-initiatives-and-changes-announced-at-carbon-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126764","title":{"rendered":"New Initiatives and Changes Announced at Carbon Transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allentown, PA (CT-012424) &#8212; Technology, fares, routing, and Senior IDs, are among the initiatives and changes at Carbon Transit beginning January 29<sup>th<\/sup>. The announcement was made by AJ Jordan, Director of Planning and Scheduling at LANTA, which manages Carbon Transit.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time transit riders in Carbon County will have real-time bus tracking and fare-paying capabilities with the use of several apps. The free apps, available on IOS and Android devices, include\u00a0<em>Transit, MyStop,\u00a0<\/em>and<em>\u00a0Google Maps<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Seniors can ride CT Bus and CT Flex for free with their Pennsylvania Senior ID card.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lantabus.com\/lanta-senior-citizen-id-card\/\">https:\/\/lantabus.com\/lanta-senior-citizen-id-card\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CT Bus, which runs two fixed routes in the county, will now only board riders at established bus stops, eliminating pickup by\u00a0<em>flagging<\/em>\u00a0down a bus driver.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-image-carousel  su-image-carousel-columns-3 su-image-carousel-has-spacing su-image-carousel-has-lightbox su-image-carousel-has-outline su-image-carousel-adaptive su-image-carousel-slides-style-default su-image-carousel-controls-style-dark su-image-carousel-align-none\" style=\"max-width:500px\" data-flickity-options='{\"groupCells\":true,\"cellSelector\":\".su-image-carousel-item\",\"adaptiveHeight\":true,\"cellAlign\":\"left\",\"prevNextButtons\":true,\"pageDots\":true,\"autoPlay\":3000,\"imagesLoaded\":true,\"contain\":false,\"selectedAttraction\":0.007000000000000000145716771982051795930601656436920166015625,\"friction\":0.25}' id=\"su_image_carousel_69f6768fb3036\"><div class=\"su-image-carousel-item\"><div class=\"su-image-carousel-item-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lehighton-CT-Map.png\" data-caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lehighton-CT-Map.png\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lehighton-CT-Map.png 602w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lehighton-CT-Map-300x228.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"su-image-carousel-item\"><div class=\"su-image-carousel-item-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lansford-CT-Map.png\" data-caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lansford-CT-Map.png\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lansford-CT-Map.png 624w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lansford-CT-Map-300x170.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><script id=\"su_image_carousel_69f6768fb3036_script\">if(window.SUImageCarousel){setTimeout(function() {window.SUImageCarousel.initGallery(document.getElementById(\"su_image_carousel_69f6768fb3036\"))}, 0);}var su_image_carousel_69f6768fb3036_script=document.getElementById(\"su_image_carousel_69f6768fb3036_script\");if(su_image_carousel_69f6768fb3036_script){su_image_carousel_69f6768fb3036_script.parentNode.removeChild(su_image_carousel_69f6768fb3036_script);}<\/script>\n<p>Carbon Transit is also making two minor route changes in Lansford and Lehighton, including service to LVHN in Lehighton. Information is available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carbontransit.com\/\">www.carbontransit.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nChuck Genna<br \/>\nMedia Relations Coordinator<br \/>\nLehigh and Northampton Transportation Authority<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allentown, PA (CT-012424) &#8212; Technology, fares, routing, and Senior IDs, are among the initiatives and changes at Carbon Transit beginning January 29th. The announcement was made by AJ Jordan, Director &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126764\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Initiatives and Changes Announced at Carbon Transit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/carbon-transit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}