{"id":1377,"date":"2022-03-19T05:02:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T19:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=8061e8da3363131ff4f43a3fb266dcef"},"modified":"2022-03-19T05:02:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T19:02:32","slug":"calls-for-fare-free-public-transport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=1377","title":{"rendered":"Calls for fare free public transport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climate and community activists have called for fare-free buses, trains and ferries, after \u201csurprisingly cheap\u201d estimates for the costs to halve public transport fares. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\nThe Government said it will cost between $25 to $40 million to cut public transport ticket prices in half for three months. That\u2019s led some to speculate that a fully funded public transport system could cost as little as an additional $200m per year.<\/p>\n<p>But experts warn the three-month estimates are likely based on current passenger numbers, which are suppressed due to Covid-19 outbreaks. If people flocked onto public transport, that extra demand would push the costs higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climate and community activists have called for fare-free buses, trains and ferries, after \u201csurprisingly cheap\u201d estimates for the costs to halve public transpor<\/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-1377","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\/1377","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=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}