{"id":1223,"date":"2022-06-07T10:16:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T00:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=c96d5be21224bbdf0c8ef646e2beaa5b"},"modified":"2022-06-07T10:16:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T00:16:18","slug":"winter-of-commuter-discontent-how-not-to-build-a-transport-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"Winter of commuter discontent: How not to build a transport hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen months after it opened with some fanfare, Auckland\u2019s fancy new downtown bus hub is closing again for five months in what is a lesson to politicians on acting in haste and repenting at leisure. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\nThe lesson will be cold comfort to many bus users, who\u2019ll be sheltering from winter weather at improvised stops, wondering why. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\nLower Albert St connects with Auckland\u2019s downtown waterfront and a year-long $20 million upgrade of it was part of a major revamp ahead of the 2021 America\u2019s Cup regatta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen months after it opened with some fanfare, Auckland\u2019s fancy new downtown bus hub is closing again for five months in what is a lesson to politicians on<\/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-1223","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\/1223","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=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}