{"id":267183,"date":"2025-09-30T18:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/267183\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T18:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T18:47:10","slug":"san-diegans-encouraged-to-ditch-their-cars-for-free-ride-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/267183\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diegans encouraged to ditch their cars for Free Ride Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/MTS-Trolley-Downtown.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MTS-Trolley-Downtown.jpg\" alt=\"MTS trolley\" class=\"wp-image-131115\"  \/><\/a>An MTS trolley in downtown San Diego. (File photo courtesy MTS)<\/p>\n<p>This week, tens of thousands of San Diego residents are invited to ditch their cars and hop on public transit to celebrate the sixth annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdmts.com\/free-ride-day\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Free Ride Day<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Free Ride Day, which is Wednesday, Oct. 1, is aimed to highlight the region\u2019s commitment to clean transportation on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleanairday.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California Clean Air Day<\/a>.\u00a0It has also been the highest ridership day over the last few years, according to San Diego\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdmts.com\/free-ride-day\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolitan Transit System<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>MTS and North County Transit District will be offering free lifts all day Wednesday on all transit services, including buses, trolleys, COASTER, SPRINTER, BREEZE fixed-route buses, and NCTD+ on-demand services.<\/p>\n<p>Pop-up information, as well as giveaways and free transit swag,\u00a0will be available at the following locations Wednesday: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>7-9 a.m. at Old Town Transit Center<\/li>\n<li>7-9 a.m. at Euclid Ave Transit Center<\/li>\n<li>3-5 p.m. at Centerline Rapid Station (I-15 &amp; University)<\/li>\n<li>3-5 p.m. at UTC Transit Center<\/li>\n<li>3-5 p.m. at La Mesa Trolley Station<\/li>\n<li>4-6 p.m. at E Street Transit Center<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/sdchamber.org\/event\/mts-free-ride-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An MTS trolley in downtown San Diego. (File photo courtesy MTS) This week, tens of thousands of San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":267184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,139259,139260,62682,26945,9907,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-267183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-california-clean-air-day","12":"tag-free-ride-day","13":"tag-metropolitan-transit-system","14":"tag-public-transit","15":"tag-public-transportation","16":"tag-san-diego","17":"tag-sandiego","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115294742068763095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}