{"id":89504,"date":"2018-01-31T11:44:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T17:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/?p=89504"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:56:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:56:12","slug":"passenger-profile-paula-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/nextstop\/passenger-profile-paula-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger Profile: Paula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Passengers like Paula depend on Metro transit to get to work, school and other important destinations. We hope you enjoy her story, and we\u2019re interested in your transit story too. Email\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:mrhibbard@bistatedev.org\"><em>mrhibbard@bistatedev.org<\/em><\/a><em>, and we may share your story in a future \u201cPassenger Profile.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Paula-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-89505\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-magnific_type=\"image\" data-rl_title=\"Paula\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"Paula\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-89505\" src=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Paula-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2592\" height=\"1728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Paula-1.jpg 2592w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Paula-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Paula-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Paula-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2592px) 100vw, 2592px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Four years ago, Paula&#8217;s car was stolen. While many of us would only see that as a downside, Paula saw a silver lining &#8212; it was an opportunity to shift gears to a no-car lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When my car got stolen, I decided at that time to not get another one,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t a hard decision to make.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today, Paula relies on Metro. To get to work, Paula boards the #13 Caseyville-Marybelle MetroBus route in Illinois and rides the bus to the Fairview Heights MetroLink Station. From there, she boards a Blue Line train and rides to the Clayton MetroLink Station.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of work, Paula uses Metro do accomplish all sorts of chores on her to-do list from paying bills to going to the store &#8212; all while helping her save some money and avoid some stress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have to worry about traffic,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have to worry about gas or car insurance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passengers like Paula depend on Metro transit to get to work, school and other important destinations. We hope you enjoy her story, and we\u2019re interested in your transit story too. Email\u00a0mrhibbard@bistatedev.org, and we may share your story in a future \u201cPassenger Profile.\u201d &nbsp; Four years ago, Paula&#8217;s car was stolen. While many of us would [&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-89504","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\/89504","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=89504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}