{"id":1343,"date":"2022-04-12T08:30:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T22:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=e4e59f9a481615cd740610fd425a949a"},"modified":"2022-04-12T08:30:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T22:30:54","slug":"public-transport-ultimately-cant-be-subsidised-or-underwritten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=1343","title":{"rendered":"Public transport ultimately &#8216;can&#8217;t be subsidised or underwritten&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The case for [ongoing public transport subsidies](https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/politics\/local-government\/128133699\/halfprice-public-transport-could-attract-1015-more-passengers-in-auckland?rm=a) does not stack up, National Party leader Christopher Luxon says.<\/p>\n<p>As part of a package to ease financial pressure, [the cost of public transport has been halved](https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/environment\/climate-news\/128071113\/calls-for-farefree-public-transport-after-government-halves-ticket-prices?rm=a) from April through to the end of June.<\/p>\n<p>Its use in Auckland hit record highs in the first week of April, coinciding with the start of the reduced fares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case for ongoing public transport subsidies does not stack up, National Party leader Christopher Luxon says. As part of a package to ease financial pressure<\/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-1343","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\/1343","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=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}