{"id":128182,"date":"2024-09-17T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=b2092bb63a47edfc83da595506c3026a"},"modified":"2024-09-17T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T20:00:02","slug":"waikato-councils-tens-of-millions-short-on-transport-funding-mayors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=128182","title":{"rendered":"Waikato councils tens of millions short on transport funding &#8211; mayors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayors say they\u2019re tens of millions short on transport funding after the Government didn\u2019t deliver what they\u2019d requested.<\/p>\n<p>The gap for four large Waikato councils is more than $100m, and the mayors said that rules out things like new bus routes for growing areas and footpath maintenance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis wasn\u2019t a small ouch, this was actually quite a big hole,\u201d Mayor Paula Southgate said when mayors spoke with\u00a0*Waikato Times*\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The funding was confirmed in the recently released 2024-27 National Land Transport Plan (NLTP), amid a tight financial climate nationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayors say they\u2019re tens of millions short on transport funding after the Government didn\u2019t deliver what they\u2019d requested. The gap for four large Waikato council<\/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-128182","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\/128182","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=128182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128185,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128182\/revisions\/128185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}