{"id":133195,"date":"2024-09-21T07:56:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T21:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=1903381e38bd1f7dbb957ec537b3339f"},"modified":"2024-09-21T07:56:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T21:56:36","slug":"warning-perfect-storm-for-trains-worse-than-the-wellington-bus-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=133195","title":{"rendered":"Warning &#8216;perfect storm&#8217; for trains worse than the Wellington bus crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wellingtonian commuters, fresh from the bus crisis and \u201clasagne of failures\u201d, are now amid a \u201cperfect storm\u201d for trains, a Greater Wellington Regional councillor has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Yadana Saw said the bus issues were largely solved with one fix: More money to recruit more drivers and pay them more.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cperfect\u201d train storm was more complex, she said: Years of under-investment in tracks, public transport funding being \u201cdecimated\u201d by the Government, workforce issues resulting in industrial action this week leaving passengers stranded for hours, and a societal change in culture with large numbers of people working from home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wellingtonian commuters, fresh from the bus crisis and \u201clasagne of failures\u201d, are now amid a \u201cperfect storm\u201d for trains, a Greater Wellington Regional councillo<\/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-133195","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\/133195","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=133195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138072,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133195\/revisions\/138072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}