{"id":127182,"date":"2024-09-14T15:27:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T05:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=56b4303177def55c5708bcc6f225737e"},"modified":"2024-09-14T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T05:27:04","slug":"brakes-still-on-wellingtons-transport-despite-3-3b-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=127182","title":{"rendered":"Brakes still on Wellington&#8217;s transport despite $3.3b funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to understand how difficult it is to build major roads in Wellington, check out a video by MP Chris Bishop from just before the last election.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop, who subsequently won the Hutt South seat, speaks supportively of the Melling Interchange which Labour had announced with a $700m budget, for a project that was then known as\u00a0RiverLink.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop promised that \u201cthe next National Government\u201d would \u201cseriously investigate\u201d extending the Melling Line north.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward one year and the much talked about Melling Interchange is bogged down at the design stage and, due to a lack of funding, the future of the Melling train line is now uncertain with Greater Wellington suggesting it might be closed.<\/p>\n<p>Various dates to start the interchange, on State Highway 2, have come and gone over the past three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to understand how difficult it is to build major roads in Wellington, check out a video by MP Chris Bishop from just before the last election. Bisho<\/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-127182","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\/127182","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=127182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127183,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127182\/revisions\/127183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}