{"id":1025,"date":"2022-12-02T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=1fc3e06b96dea8c853a65d22815a9b77"},"modified":"2022-12-02T06:00:53","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T20:00:53","slug":"timaru-terminates-local-link-bus-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"Timaru Terminates local Link bus services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users of Timaru\u2019s Link bus service will soon have to move to the regional council\u2019s on-demand service after a decision to scrap the former service from February.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canterbury general manager public transport, Stewart Gibbon, said the council has found the Link service to no longer be sustainable following the \u201csuccessful introduction of on-demand public transport\u201d service MyWay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Link represents the end of an era, as Timaru\u2019s last remaining fixed-route bus service. Our three other routes were replaced in June 2020 by the on-demand service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, with our community accustomed to using on-demand public transport, so few people are using the Link that it is clearly no longer sustainable as a service,\u201d Gibbon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users of Timaru\u2019s Link bus service will soon have to move to the regional council\u2019s on-demand service after a decision to scrap the former service from February<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}