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With COVID waning, JTA ends free rides for health workers

By Cyd Hoskinson
Published on November 23, 2022 at 2:59 pm
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Jacksonville health care workers who ride city buses for free will have to start paying for those trips next month.

The Jacksonville Transportation Authority will discontinue its Health Care Worker Free Ride Program on Dec. 1.

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JTA began offering the free bus rides in 2020 as a way to thank health care employees who had to go to work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

JTA said it was ending the service because state and federal governments have lifted COVID-19 restrictions.

author image Cyd Hoskinson, host of "All Things Considered," began working at WJCT on Valentine’s Day 2011. Among her many accomplishments, she has interviewed former President Jimmy Carter, Coretta Scott King, Hosea Williams, Andrew Young, newspaper columnist Sydney J. Harris, Joan Fontaine and celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse. Cyd is also a big fan of modern audio drama and, before coming to Jacksonville, she served on the Atlanta Radio Theatre Co.’s board of directors. She has a degree in elementary education from Florida State University.

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