{"id":858,"date":"2017-04-14T10:36:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T15:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/?p=858"},"modified":"2017-04-12T14:40:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T19:40:34","slug":"metra-adjusting-friday-schedule-to-give-commuters-a-head-start-on-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/metra-adjusting-friday-schedule-to-give-commuters-a-head-start-on-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Metra Adjusting Friday Schedule to Give Commuters a Head Start On Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 22.5pt; background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #2e2925;\">Metra will operate on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0073a3;\">a special schedule<\/span>\u00a0Friday to accommodate Downtown commuters looking to get a head start on the Easter weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 22.5pt; background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #2e2925;\">The\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0073a3;\">modified schedule<\/span>\u00a0is meant to help those who get out of work a bit early, as most lines will add trains or shift train schedules to provide more early afternoon departures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 22.5pt; background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #2e2925;\">A complete list of afternoon departures can be found on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0073a3;\">Metra&#8217;s website<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 22.5pt; background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; color: #2e2925;\">\u201cWe hope that these early departures make things more convenient for our customers, and help them get a head start on family gatherings and other holiday plans,\u201d said\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0073a3;\">Don Orseno<\/span>, Metra&#8217;s executive director and chief financial officer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 22.5pt; background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 11.25pt; text-align: justify;\">By Howard Ludwig \/ Dnainfo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metra will operate on\u00a0a special schedule\u00a0Friday to accommodate Downtown commuters looking to get a head start on the Easter weekend. The\u00a0modified schedule\u00a0is meant to help those who get out of work a bit early, as most lines will add trains or shift train schedules to provide more early afternoon departures. A complete list of afternoon &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/metra-adjusting-friday-schedule-to-give-commuters-a-head-start-on-weekend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Metra Adjusting Friday Schedule to Give Commuters a Head Start On Weekend<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/467959101.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":860,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.universaltaxidispatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}