{"id":47414,"date":"2020-09-28T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/home2\/king-county-metro-bus-fares-resume-oct-1\/"},"modified":"2020-09-28T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T18:41:00","slug":"king-county-metro-bus-fares-resume-oct-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/king-county-metro-bus-fares-resume-oct-1\/","title":{"rendered":"King County Metro bus fares resume Oct. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>King County Metro will resume charging bus fares on Thursday, Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Metro suspended fares on March 21 due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kingcounty.gov\/depts\/transportation\/metro\/fares-orca\/what-to-pay.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fares are $2.75 for an adult<\/a> and $1.50 for youth. Fares, if riders qualify based on household income and register<a href=\"https:\/\/kingcounty.gov\/depts\/transportation\/metro\/fares-orca\/orca-cards\/lift.aspx#qualify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"card\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> for an ORCA Lift <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kingcounty.gov\/depts\/transportation\/metro\/fares-orca\/orca-cards\/lift.aspx#qualify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"card\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">card<\/a>, are $1.50 for an adult.<\/p>\n<p>While Metro has added several new safety measures, <a href=\"https:\/\/kingcounty.gov\/depts\/transportation\/metro\/fares-orca\/orca-cards.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"orca\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tapping your ORCA card<\/a> is the fastest and healthiest way to pay your fare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ride safely<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In accordance with King County Public Health guidelines, and for the safety of all transit riders and employees, Metro thanks riders for following safety policies and guidelines, including:<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; Wearing a mask or face covering is required in public places, on transit vehicles and at transit stops<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; Stay home if you are sick<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; Maintain 6 feet of distance from others<\/p>\n<p>&#8226; Observe and abide by directions provided by posted signs and decals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fares were suspended in March due to COVID-19 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":47415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-47414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47414"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=47414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}