{"id":2538,"date":"2006-08-20T21:53:54","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T02:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/framingham.com\/news\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2010-08-14T02:46:53","modified_gmt":"2010-08-14T07:46:53","slug":"new-lift-9-bus-service-in-framingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2006\/08\/20\/around-town\/new-lift-9-bus-service-in-framingham\/","title":{"rendered":"New LIFT 9 Bus Service in Framingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> -- Beginning Monday, August 28, the LIFT Public Transit System will begin providing new service along Rt. 9. The new LIFT 9 bus will provide direct service between the West Natick Commuter Rail station and the retail, residential, and employment hubs along Route 9 in Framingham, including Framingham State College, Shoppers World, the Natick Mall, Technology Park, and the 9\/90 Corporate Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>New route covers from 9\/90 Corporate Center to W. Natick Train Station<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\"After months of planning, the Framingham LIFT Public Transit System is very pleased to be able to offer the new LIFT 9 bus service to MetroWest residents,\u201d<\/em> comments Kathleen B. Bartolini, Director of Planning &amp; Economic Development for Framingham. <em>\u201cThis new service will provide convenient access to jobs, schools, shopping, and entertainment.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>LIFT 9 will operate between 6:10 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. With the addition of the LIFT 9 bus, some existing LIFT routes will see changes in service. LIFT 5 will no longer be servicing Framingham State College and will be increasing service in Hopkinton. Also the LIFT 5 route will be shortened from an 80 minute round trip to an hour. LIFT 6 will operate on a different time schedule, and LIFT 7 will have a slightly different route around Framingham State College.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on LIFT 9 and other service changes, please visit www.framinghamma.gov or call the LIFT at 508-532-5459.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8212; Beginning Monday, August 28, the LIFT Public Transit System will begin providing new service along Rt. 9. The new LIFT 9 bus will provide direct service between the West Natick Commuter Rail station and the retail, residential, and employment hubs along Route 9 in Framingham, including Framingham State College, Shoppers World, the Natick Mall,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2006\/08\/20\/around-town\/new-lift-9-bus-service-in-framingham\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283],"tags":[1228,819,1208,1226,770,1207,731,1227],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-town","tag-bus-service","tag-economic-development","tag-framingham-bus","tag-kathleen-bartolini","tag-lift","tag-lift-bus","tag-planning","tag-transit-system"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2539,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}