{"id":1235,"date":"2022-05-30T06:05:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T20:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=685a0d684e31ba4b3fcd33a5fbd0d791"},"modified":"2022-05-30T06:05:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T20:05:52","slug":"how-to-improve-wellingtons-struggling-bus-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=1235","title":{"rendered":"How to improve Wellington&#8217;s struggling bus network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a public service city, Wellington commuters fly the flag for the public transport bus use. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\nWellingtonians use the bus to get to work at four times the national rate, with 17.3% of people swiping a Snapper card both morning and night, according to Stats NZ data from 2019.  \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\nBut for many, that is in spite of, not because of, the quality of the bus network. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\nThe bustastrophe of 2018 lingers long in the mind. But Wellington\u2019s bus service has since plumbed even lower depths \u2013 bus reliability is currently at an all-time low, with more than 2600 cancelled bus trips in May, amounting to 3.9% of all journeys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a public service city, Wellington commuters fly the flag for the public transport bus use.    Wellingtonians use the bus to get to work at four times the nat<\/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-1235","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\/1235","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=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}