{"id":185627983,"date":"2010-11-19T11:19:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T11:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=185627983"},"modified":"2010-11-19T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T11:19:43","slug":"mtas-guaranteed-ride-home-program-expands-to-harford-county-giving-peace-of-mind-to-commuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=185627983","title":{"rendered":"MTA\u2019s Guaranteed Ride Home Program Expands to Harford County, Giving Peace of Mind to Commuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nWith new funding from the Maryland Department of Transportation, Guaranteed Ride Home, previously available to workers in the Washington, D.C. region has been expanded to the Baltimore region and St. Mary\u2019s County. Workers in counties included in the program who commute by mass transit, van pool, car pool, bicycle or walking are eligible for a free ride home in the event of an emergency. Expansion of the program to Anne Arundel and Harford counties means thousands of workers relocating to Fort Meade and Aberdeen Proving Ground through the Base Realignment and Closure process will be eligible for the benefit.<\/p>\n<p>Guaranteed Ride Home provides regular commuters with a free ride home in the event of a mid-day emergency. \u201cOne of the main reasons people do not take mass transit or join carpools is because they\u2019re worried about getting home quickly when family members get sick or there is a personal emergency,\u201d said Pat Fielder, Harford County Rideshare Coordinator. \u201cWe have heard this concern from BRAC workers, and are delighted that the State of Maryland has stepped up to help by extending the Guaranteed Ride Home Program to Harford County commuters who use mass transit cars and vanpools to get to work,\u201d she added.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.daggerpress.com\/2010\/11\/18\/mta%E2%80%99s-guaranteed-ride-home-program-expands-to-harford-county-giving-peace-of-mind-to-commuters\/\">https:\/\/www.daggerpress.com\/2010\/11\/18\/mta%E2%80%99s-guaranteed-ride-home-program-expands-to-harford-county-giving-peace-of-mind-to-commuters\/<\/a>oldId.20101119111943686<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; With new funding from the Maryland Department of Transportation, Guaranteed Ride Home, previously available to workers in the Washington, D.C. region has been expanded to the Baltimore region and St. Mary\u2019s County. Workers in counties included in the program who commute by mass transit, van pool, car pool, bicycle or walking are eligible for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=185627983\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MTA\u2019s Guaranteed Ride Home Program Expands to Harford County, Giving Peace of Mind to Commuters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185627983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-the-metro-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185627983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185627983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185627983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185627983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185627983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185627983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}