{"id":141674,"date":"2024-10-15T04:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=f3f267773a1c508f39b9a8514319363b"},"modified":"2024-10-15T04:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T18:00:40","slug":"palmerston-north-bus-trips-surpass-a-million-in-past-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=141674","title":{"rendered":"Palmerston North bus trips surpass a million in past year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Horizons Regional Council has recorded more than a million passenger trips across its public transport network over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Palmerston North\u2019s\u00a0all-electric bus service\u00a0and Whanganui\u2019s Te Ngaru The Tide bus service, two recent additions to the region\u2019s service, had significant growth in usage, councillor Sam Ferguson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe demand for public transport is certainly there, so it\u2019s great to see such a significant uptake of these services,\u201d Ferguson said.<\/p>\n<p>Fergusson, the council\u2019s passenger transport committee chairperson, said the growth was a positive sign that services were recovering after the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horizons Regional Council has recorded more than a million passenger trips across its public transport network over the past year. Palmerston North\u2019s\u00a0all-electr<\/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-141674","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\/141674","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=141674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141675,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141674\/revisions\/141675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}