{"id":5743,"date":"2020-11-04T11:17:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T19:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rtcsnv.com\/news\/?p=5743"},"modified":"2020-11-04T11:17:06","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T19:17:06","slug":"rtc-honors-veterans-with-free-transit-service-on-veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/rtc-honors-veterans-with-free-transit-service-on-veterans-day\/","title":{"rendered":"RTC honors veterans with free transit service on Veterans Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>**MEDIA ADVISORY**<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>RTC honors veterans with free transit service on Veterans Day <br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ctt.ac\/GrR1H\"><em>Click to Tweet<\/em><\/a><em>: <\/em><a href=\"mailto:.@RTCSNV\"><em>.@RTCSNV<\/em><\/a><em> honors veterans, active duty military service members with #FREE #transit service on #VeteransDay, 11\/11 #RTCSNV<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>LAS VEGAS \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtcsnv.com\/\">The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada (RTC)<\/a> is continuing its annual tradition of honoring active military service members and veterans by providing those passengers with free transit service on Wednesday, Nov. 11.<\/p>\r\n<p>Those who have served or are currently serving in the U.S. Armed Forces may ride all 38 RTC transit routes for free from 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. on Veterans Day.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cThe complimentary ride offer is our way of thanking the men and women for their services in the United States Armed Forces,\u201d said MJ Maynard, RTC chief executive officer. \u201cWe want them to know that we very much appreciate their commitment and sacrifice.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>To ride, service members simply need to present the bus driver with their military or veterans identification card from any state when boarding. Outside of the holiday, service members can participate in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtcsnv.com\/ways-to-travel\/fares-passes\/passes-for-veterans\/\">Veterans Reduced Fare Program<\/a>, which provides a 50 percent discount on full-fare pricing for all RTC fixed-route buses. Local veterans can apply for an RTC-issued veterans\u2019 reduced fare ID card at the RTC Bonneville Transit Center, 101 E. Bonneville Ave., in downtown Las Vegas.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Holiday Transit Schedule<br \/>\r\n<\/strong>The transit system will continue to operate on a Saturday schedule on Veterans Day, while routes 207 Alta and 209 Vegas\/Owens will remain on weekday service.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**MEDIA ADVISORY** RTC honors veterans with free transit service on Veterans Day Click to Tweet: .@RTCSNV honors veterans, active duty military service members with #FREE #transit service on #VeteransDay, 11\/11  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-5743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-transit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtc.staging.snvhost.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}