{"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:\/\/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\":0.007,\"friction\":0.25}' id=\"su_image_carousel_6a25b5dc748de\"><div class=\"su-image-carousel-item\"><div class=\"su-image-carousel-item-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lehighton-CT-Map.png?fit=602%2C458&amp;ssl=1\" 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:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lehighton-CT-Map.png?fit=602%2C458&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lehighton-CT-Map.png?w=602&amp;ssl=1 602w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lehighton-CT-Map.png?resize=300%2C228&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"su-image-carousel-item\"><div class=\"su-image-carousel-item-content\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lansford-CT-Map.png?fit=624%2C353&amp;ssl=1\" 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:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lansford-CT-Map.png?fit=624%2C353&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lansford-CT-Map.png?w=624&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/lansford-CT-Map.png?resize=300%2C170&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><script id=\"su_image_carousel_6a25b5dc748de_script\">if(window.SUImageCarousel){setTimeout(function() {window.SUImageCarousel.initGallery(document.getElementById(\"su_image_carousel_6a25b5dc748de\"))}, 0);}var su_image_carousel_6a25b5dc748de_script=document.getElementById(\"su_image_carousel_6a25b5dc748de_script\");if(su_image_carousel_6a25b5dc748de_script){su_image_carousel_6a25b5dc748de_script.parentNode.removeChild(su_image_carousel_6a25b5dc748de_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 of Planning and Scheduling at LANTA, which manages Carbon Transit. For the first time transit riders in Carbon County will have real-time bus tracking and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/carbon-transit.jpg?fit=672%2C372&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}