{"id":1153,"date":"2022-07-11T12:25:25","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T02:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=a12e3f02c6c42004d052bac5327fb425"},"modified":"2022-07-11T12:25:25","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T02:25:25","slug":"is-christchurch-central-city-free-shuttle-bus-returning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"Is Christchurch central city free shuttle bus returning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A free shuttle bus service\u00a0previously ran in the Christchurch central city for 15 years, but was stopped after the February 2011 earthquake, Canterbury councils are poised to look at whether a free central Christchurch shuttle can be reinstated..<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Christchurch City Council staff \u2013 including mayor Lianne Dalziel \u2013 met and discussed the service\u2019s possible return with Environment Canterbury (ECan) and economic development agency ChristchurchNZ.<\/p>\n<p>In December, council staff recommended councillors revisit the shuttle idea in 2024. They said a \u201crough\u201d cost analysis estimated it would cost $1.3 million a year to run and would require at least $200,000 to $400,000 to establish all fully funded by ratepayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A free shuttle bus service\u00a0previously ran in the Christchurch central city for 15 years, but was stopped after the February 2011 earthquake, Canterbury councils<\/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-1153","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\/1153","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=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1154,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}