{"id":1395,"date":"2022-03-01T06:50:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=f173837248674479936d61e66345fce1"},"modified":"2022-03-01T06:50:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:50:57","slug":"what-is-a-fair-public-transport-fare-especially-for-the-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=1395","title":{"rendered":"What is a fair public transport fare &#8211; especially for the climate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The price of a bus, train or ferry ticket has suddenly become one of the year\u2019s political hot topics. In Auckland, Labour-linked mayoral candidate Efeso Collins has backed the ultimate version of affordable public transport &#8211; advocating the scrapping of fares. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\nIn Wellington, the regional council has delayed the once-inevitable inflation-matching fare rise of 3 per cent because councillors are divided over whether a freeze would be better. \\<br \/>\n \\<br \/>\nAcross Canterbury, public views are being sought on options such as fare-free travel for under-25s, students and Total Mobility or Community Services cardholders &#8211; or flat fares, $2 per adult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price of a bus, train or ferry ticket has suddenly become one of the year\u2019s political hot topics. In Auckland, Labour-linked mayoral candidate Efeso Collins<\/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-1395","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\/1395","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=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}