{"id":15845,"date":"2021-04-07T00:29:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T00:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=15845"},"modified":"2021-04-06T19:30:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T19:30:16","slug":"new-bus-route-to-twin-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/07\/new-bus-route-to-twin-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bus Route To Twin, For Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mountain Rides\u2019 pilot bus route to Twin Falls has begun. The route, which launched April 5, will operate three days per week\u2014on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays\u2014offering people a 10:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. window in Twin Falls or a 12 to 1:30 p.m. window in the Wood River Valley.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A recent grant award from the St. Luke\u2019s Wood River Foundation will enable Mountain Rides to extend the pilot period an additional seven months and operate the service through the end of 2021. Mountain Rides continues to seek additional funds to extend the pilot through October 2022, for a continuous pilot period of one and a half years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new route is designed to meet the non-emergency medical transportation needs of people in the Wood River Valley and surrounding rural communities. However, anyone can ride the bus. Like all of Mountain Rides\u2019 other fixed-route bus services, it will operate on a first-come, first-served basis, be wheelchair accessible, and fare-free.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can find the schedule on Mountain Rides\u2019 website, Facebook, and buses; also, at Atkinsons\u2019 and St. Luke\u2019s locations. The bus to Twin Falls will stop in the Valley at:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Dollar Circle in Sun Valley\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Main &amp; 1st in Ketchum\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> St. Luke\u2019s Wood River Hospital\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> River &amp; Bullion Park n\u2019 Ride in Hailey\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Main &amp; Spruce in Bellevue\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Timmerman Junction for Picabo\/Carey and Fairfield connections\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain Rides\u2019 pilot bus route to Twin Falls has begun. The route, which launched April 5, will operate three days per week\u2014on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays\u2014offering people a 10:15 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. window in Twin Falls or a 12 to 1:30 p.m. window in the Wood River Valley.\u00a0 A recent grant award from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-in-brief","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15847,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15845\/revisions\/15847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}