{"id":146498,"date":"2024-11-03T07:37:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T21:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=450f6a3c683722a9b0bd01f40312d3ad"},"modified":"2024-11-03T07:37:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T21:37:40","slug":"whanganui-public-transport-funding-boost-survives-after-horizons-regional-council-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=146498","title":{"rendered":"Whanganui public transport funding boost survives after Horizons Regional Council vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A $400,000 public transport funding boost for\u00a0Whanganui\u00a0next year is still on the table \u2013 for now \u2013 following a vote by\u00a0Horizons regional councillors.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the council\u2019s 10-year (long-term) plan, the money was contingent on matched funding from\u00a0[NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi](https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/topic\/waka-kotahi\/)\u00a0(NZTA).<\/p>\n<p>With the decision to focus the agency\u2019s\u00a0National Land Transport Programme\u00a0resources on larger centres,\u00a0the matched funding is off the table, leaving councillors to decide whether to go ahead with only Horizons\u2019 share.<\/p>\n<p>A 10-4 vote in favour was made during discussions on the council\u2019s annual plan for 2025\/26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $400,000 public transport funding boost for\u00a0Whanganui\u00a0next year is still on the table \u2013 for now \u2013 following a vote by\u00a0Horizons regional councillors. Part of t<\/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-146498","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\/146498","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=146498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146499,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146498\/revisions\/146499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}