{"id":143354,"date":"2024-10-24T04:30:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T18:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=cf8087b42e2ad4d1ed2381876495bdcb"},"modified":"2024-10-24T04:30:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T18:30:33","slug":"environment-canterbury-to-fund-cruise-ship-buses-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=143354","title":{"rendered":"Environment Canterbury to fund cruise ship buses after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environment Canterbury (ECan) will fund buses for cruise passengers, reversing\u00a0a decision taken a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Councillors voted on Wednesday to take about $200,000 from reserves to fund buses on 28 days when cruise ships will be in Lyttelton Harbour.<\/p>\n<p>Many cruise ships provided return shuttles between the dock, the central city and other destinations, but charged passengers robust fees for the service. One cruise ship reportedly charged passengers A$36 (NZ$39.79) for the trips last season.<\/p>\n<p>These cruise passengers \u201coverwhelmed\u201d public transport in Lyttelton in the 2022-23 season, ECan\u2019s manager of public transport operations Derek Walk told councillors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environment Canterbury (ECan) will fund buses for cruise passengers, reversing\u00a0a decision taken a few months ago. Councillors voted on Wednesday to take about $<\/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-143354","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\/143354","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=143354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143355,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143354\/revisions\/143355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}