{"id":123245,"date":"2024-09-09T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=5e9c368f2bd9eb2c80e2a8ac2ec73dd5"},"modified":"2024-09-09T06:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T20:00:40","slug":"a-public-transport-improvement-in-new-plymouth-but-not-by-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=123245","title":{"rendered":"A public transport improvement in New Plymouth, but not by much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s tight times for public transport around the country. The government says Taranaki will get\u00a0$22 million in public transport funding over the next 3 years\u2013 similar to current funding, if you take rising costs into account.<\/p>\n<p>This shouldn\u2019t mean all is lost for those who want more bus services: Taranaki\u2019s thousand-something daily bus users and the many thousands more who\u2019d use the buses if they were more frequent and direct.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, there\u2019s a cool trick with public transport that can deliver radically better value for money. <\/p>\n<p>Take a kooky, convoluted network like New Plymouth\u2019s, and make bus routes more direct, out-and-back along the same roads and stick to main roads, unless other roads give more passenger access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s tight times for public transport around the country. The government says Taranaki will get\u00a0$22 million in public transport funding over the next 3 years\u2013 s<\/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-123245","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\/123245","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=123245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123246,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123245\/revisions\/123246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}