{"id":11288,"date":"2021-05-20T20:11:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T00:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=11288"},"modified":"2021-05-20T20:11:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T00:11:24","slug":"routes-for-upcoming-downtown-the-squeeze-shuttles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/05\/20\/routes-for-upcoming-downtown-the-squeeze-shuttles\/","title":{"rendered":"Routes for Upcoming Downtown \u201cThe Squeeze\u201d Shuttles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;Citrus Connection\u2018s board of directors approved the routes for its new service, called \u201cThe Squeeze\u201d, which will use 8 passenger gasoline-powered carts to ferry riders around downtown Lakeland. The downtown shuttle service called \u201cThe Squeeze\u201d starts in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"876\" height=\"493\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Squeeze-in-Lakeland.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Squeeze-in-Lakeland.jpg 876w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Squeeze-in-Lakeland-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/The-Squeeze-in-Lakeland-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lunchtime crowd and visitors from parking and offices to restaurants, bars, and shopping via a concentric loop from Lake Morton Drive, up to Tennessee Avenue to Bay Street, and over to Kentucky Avenue, with a stretch along Lake Mirror Drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"583\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lunch-loop.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lunch-loop.png 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lunch-loop-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lunch-loop-768x437.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weekend evening patrons will get expanded access courtesy of two carts running opposite directions between the hotels next to the&nbsp;RP Funding Center&nbsp;and Florida Southern College\u2019s&nbsp;Usonian House&nbsp;on Frank Lloyd Wright Way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"603\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/night-route.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/night-route.png 1024w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/night-route-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/night-route-768x452.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lunch Loop, will operate 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Night Shuttle will utilize two carts running opposite directions from 5:30 to 11:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Initial plans called for the purchase of electric carts. But, the Citrus Connection purchased carts that run on gasoline, due to concerns over charging times for electric while being able to maintain the consistency of the interval times of the loops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Riders can purchase tickets \u2013 $3 for a week pass or $9 for a month pass \u2013 via a cashless mobile ticketing app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Citrus Connection\u2018s board of directors approved the routes for its new service, called \u201cThe Squeeze\u201d, which will use 8 passenger gasoline-powered carts to ferry riders around downtown Lakeland. The downtown&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}