{"id":1157,"date":"2022-07-08T10:03:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T00:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=2c8e3cb72568c8b539e05ba34b1f1128"},"modified":"2022-07-08T10:03:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T00:03:45","slug":"wellingtons-new-airport-bus-is-carrying-more-passengers-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=1157","title":{"rendered":"Wellington&#8217;s new airport bus is carrying more passengers than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its first six days of operation, Wellington\u2019s new Airport Express bus has transported 4552 passengers \u2013 four times more passengers than the previous service carried in a month. The service had carried 3000 passengers in its first four days, compared with 1000 each month on the old Airport Flyer, Wellington mayor Andy Foster said during his election announcement on Newstalk ZB on Thursday morning. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\nMetlink\u2019s network and customer manager David Boyd said he was \u201cdelighted with the number of people\u201d. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\n\u201cIt is clear by the strong start that latent demand for this Metlink service is high. We know demand will continue to grow as people and organisations plan their work and recreational travel with the Airport Express in mind.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its first six days of operation, Wellington\u2019s new Airport Express bus has transported 4552 passengers \u2013 four times more passengers than the previous service<\/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-1157","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\/1157","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=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}