{"id":1309,"date":"2022-04-27T06:38:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T20:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=08a2529f0a5d716b77be3595a774576c"},"modified":"2022-04-27T06:38:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T20:38:12","slug":"support-for-bus-fare-overhaul-but-cost-is-not-canterburys-only-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"Support for bus fare overhaul, but cost is not Canterbury&#8217;s only barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who live on Christchurch\u2019s outskirts say cost is not the only barrier stopping them using public transport, with few bus stops and limited services putting people off. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\nEnvironment Canterbury (ECan) councillors are this week hearing public submissions on the council\u2019s draft annual plan.  It includes an average rates increase of 24.1%, although the actual dollar figure would be comparatively low for most ratepayers. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\nA range of options for revamping greater Christchurch\u2019s bus fares are also up for consultation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who live on Christchurch\u2019s outskirts say cost is not the only barrier stopping them using public transport, with few bus stops and limited services putti<\/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-1309","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\/1309","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=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}