{"id":122075,"date":"2024-09-07T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=bcde86ab831c42ff06733e93c4f6d6fa"},"modified":"2024-09-07T06:00:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:00:22","slug":"no-funding-for-bridge-be-the-end-of-melling-train-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=122075","title":{"rendered":"No funding for bridge be the end of Melling train services?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hutt City mayor Campbell Barry is asking for an urgent meeting with Transport Minister Simeon Brown over the future of the Melling train line.<\/p>\n<p>The Melling Line is facing an uncertain future after funding for a key piece of infrastructure was not included in the $32.9 billion\u00a0National Land Transport Programme, which included\u00a0$3.2b for Wellington\u00a0\u2012 a pedestrian bridge over Te Awa Kairangi\/Hutt River.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian bridge has always been a core part of\u00a0[RiverLink,](https:\/\/www.thepost.co.nz\/nz-news\/350228803\/riverlink-partners-go-it-alone)\u00a0which includes the Melling interchange. To build the interchange on State Highway 2, the Melling Station has to be relocated south.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hutt City mayor Campbell Barry is asking for an urgent meeting with Transport Minister Simeon Brown over the future of the Melling train line. The Melling Line<\/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-122075","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\/122075","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=122075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122076,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122075\/revisions\/122076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}