{"id":110946,"date":"2015-07-20T03:28:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T09:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/road-runner-bus-line-celebrates-1st-year-serving-southwest-colo\/"},"modified":"2015-07-20T03:28:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T09:28:15","slug":"road-runner-bus-line-celebrates-1st-year-serving-southwest-colo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/road-runner-bus-line-celebrates-1st-year-serving-southwest-colo\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Runner bus line celebrates 1st year serving Southwest Colo."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b4a42f50-06b7-403e-b64b-0ff7f5c8d3bf&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b4a42f50-06b7-403e-b64b-0ff7f5c8d3bf&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b4a42f50-06b7-403e-b64b-0ff7f5c8d3bf&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b4a42f50-06b7-403e-b64b-0ff7f5c8d3bf&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"1600\" height=\"872\" alt=\"According to a Road Runner Transit news release, service began July 15, with the 7:00 a.m. departure of the first bus, northbound to Grand Junction through Cortez, from the Durango Transit Center, delivering passengers to their destination at 12:43 p.m. Clayton Richter, Road Runner director, stands next to the first buses a year ago.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">According to a Road Runner Transit news release, service began July 15, with the 7:00 a.m. departure of the first bus, northbound to Grand Junction through Cortez, from the Durango Transit Center, delivering passengers to their destination at 12:43 p.m. Clayton Richter, Road Runner director, stands next to the first buses a year ago.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Carole McWilliams\/Pine River Times file photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The service, which stops in Durango, Mancos, Cortez, Dolores, Rico, Telluride, Placerville, Ridgway, Montrose, Delta and Grand Junction, is the result of a partnership between Southern Ute Community Action Programs, the Colorado Department of Transportation and Greyhound Lines. In 2015, it received $286,000 in subsidies from the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>In the past year, it has ferried more than 4,504 riders to their destinations, providing more than 4,430 hours of service and travelling a distance of 171,237 miles.<\/p>\n<p>According to a Road Runner Transit news release, service began July 15, with the 7:00 a.m. departure of the first bus, northbound to Grand Junction through Cortez, from the Durango Transit Center, delivering passengers to their destination at 12:43 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the southbound bus has departed from the Greyhound Station in Grand Junction daily at 1:45 p.m., returning to Durango at 7:44 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The news release notes that passengers can complete the Durango-Denver trip in one day in either direction without staying in Grand Junction. Whereas one-way airfares from Durango to Denver range from $253 to $396, a one-way ticket on Road Runner Stage Lines costs just $81 to $108.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Road Runner Transit news release, service began July 15, with the 7:00 a.m. departure of the first bus, northbound to Grand Junction through Cortez, from the Durango Transit Center, delivering passengers to their destination at 12:43 p.m. Clayton Richter, Road Runner director, stands next to the first buses a year ago.Carole McWilliams\/Pine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5742,5735],"tags":[13,2344,259],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-110946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-road-transport","tag-transportation"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110946"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=110946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}