{"id":50982,"date":"2017-04-05T14:01:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=50982"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:53:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:53:04","slug":"passenger-profile-dave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/passenger-profile-dave\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger Profile: Dave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Passengers like<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><i>\u00a0Dave\u00a0<\/i><\/span><em>depend on Metro transit to get to work, school and other important destinations. We hope you enjoy<\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/span><em>his\u00a0<\/em><em>story, and we\u2019re interested in your transit story too. Email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mrhibbard@bistatedev.org?Subject=Hello%20again\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener\">mrhibbard@bistatedev.org<\/a>, and we may share your story in a future \u201cPassenger Profile.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-50983\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DaveWEB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"6000\" height=\"3817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DaveWEB.jpg 6000w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DaveWEB-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DaveWEB-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/DaveWEB-1024x651.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 6000px) 100vw, 6000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With MetroLink, Dave was able to\u00a0leave the traffic\u00a0behind. And, after four years of riding transit,\u00a0bumper-to-bumper gridlock has become\u00a0a distant memory for him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never have to worry about traffic,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>To get to work each day, Dave boards a MetroLink train at the Fairview Heights MetroLink Station in Illinois and rides the train across the Mississippi River to the Convention Center MetroLink Station in downtown St. Louis. His office building\u00a0is just a few blocks away from the station, which has become quite the time saver.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I get right off the MetroLink and right into the building,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dave says his commute on Metro is reliable, and far more comfortable than driving\u00a0to work. While on the train, Dave enjoys reading and watching movies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hated traveling over the bridges in the morning with traffic,&#8221; Dave said. &#8220;Now, with MetroLink, I can always be at work in 20 minutes and I can relax.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers like\u00a0Dave\u00a0depend on Metro transit to get to work, school and other important destinations. We hope you enjoy\u00a0his\u00a0story, and we\u2019re interested in your transit story too. Email\u00a0mrhibbard@bistatedev.org, and we may share your story in a future \u201cPassenger Profile. With MetroLink, Dave was able to\u00a0leave the traffic\u00a0behind. And, after four years of riding transit,\u00a0bumper-to-bumper gridlock has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1198],"class_list":["post-50982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metro-lifestyle","tag-passenger-profile"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"featured_media_urls":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}