{"id":317945,"date":"2020-02-24T06:04:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T20:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=317945"},"modified":"2020-02-24T06:04:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T20:04:50","slug":"cota-to-suspend-bus-line-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cota-to-suspend-bus-line-service\/","title":{"rendered":"COTA to suspend bus line service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effective\u00a0April 5, 2020, the fixed-route bus service of the Commonwealth Office of Transport Authority will be suspended indefinitely due to a low number of riders.<\/p>\n<p>The bus service, called the Flame Tree Line 1A, is the only fixed-route public transportation system on the island of Saipan. It was first implemented on April 9, 2018, as a pilot project.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an announcement last week, COTA said that those who will be affected by this suspension of the bus line can still use the COTA demand response service (Call-A-Ride Saipan) to go to places of employment, medical appointments, etc.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact COTA at (670) 664-2682 or email Diego B. Songsong, community planner\/Title VI coordinator, at\u00a0diego.songsong@gov.mp.\u00a0(PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective\u00a0April 5, 2020, the fixed-route bus service of the Commonwealth Office of Transport Authority will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[460],"class_list":["post-317945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}