{"id":1075,"date":"2022-10-03T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=8c18f29c297210031bb81039efba0da2"},"modified":"2022-10-03T05:00:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T19:00:24","slug":"auckland-train-users-face-year-long-disruption-due-to-major-track-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=1075","title":{"rendered":"Auckland train users face year-long disruption due to major track upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Auckland rail commuters are facing their greatest disruption ever, with a series of line closures extending out more than year as\u00a0a new round of track upgrade work\u00a0begins.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Southern and Onehunga Lines\u00a0will close for three months over summer \u2013 an extension of the usual three-week summer works shutdown \u2013 while the\u00a0[Eastern Line will close](http:\/\/www.kiwirail.co.nz\/akl\/railnetworkrebuild)\u00a0for much of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be devastating for confidence in the rail network and in the wider public transport system,\u201d Matt Lowrie, from urban advocacy group Greater Auckland, said.<\/p>\n<p>Track operator KiwiRail and Auckland Transport said the\u00a0extended shutdowns were needed\u00a0while the rock foundations for the network were upgraded in preparation for future growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auckland rail commuters are facing their greatest disruption ever, with a series of line closures extending out more than year as\u00a0a new round of track upgrade w<\/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-1075","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\/1075","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=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}