{"id":15009,"date":"2024-02-26T15:49:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T05:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=1533adc4b40a5da08fced6d7e398f7e3"},"modified":"2024-02-26T15:49:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T05:49:08","slug":"bus-replacements-set-to-be-common-practice-in-wellington-for-next-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=15009","title":{"rendered":"Bus replacements set to be common practice in Wellington for next decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Wellington\u00a0region\u2019s practice of replacing trains with buses on maintenance days is expected to be the norm for at least a decade, as the region works through a renewals backlog.<\/p>\n<p>Buses replace trains\u00a0during maintenance and renewal work, often on weekends and holiday periods and in evenings.<\/p>\n<p>Metlink\u2019s Fiona Abbott told a Greater Wellington Regional Council Transport Committee meeting Metlink is going to require bus replacements for trains \u201cas part of our service offering for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat timeframe that we\u2019re talking about to rectify all the issues is 10 to 15 years,\u201d Abbott told the committee.<\/p>\n<p>Greater Wellington Regional Council chair Thomas Nash confirmed the timeframe of 10 to 15 years, \u201cwhile all the work gets done on the tracks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Wellington\u00a0region\u2019s practice of replacing trains with buses on maintenance days is expected to be the norm for at least a decade, as the region works throug<\/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-15009","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\/15009","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=15009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15010,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15009\/revisions\/15010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}