{"id":151600,"date":"2024-11-24T12:05:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T02:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=c3ce80baf0d8d8df281dfe658c27ddba"},"modified":"2024-11-24T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T02:05:01","slug":"walkable-wellington-the-majority-of-capital-city-commuters-dont-drive-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=151600","title":{"rendered":"Walkable Wellington: The majority of capital city commuters don\u2019t drive to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the odd day that Jo Clendon works from home, she misses her commute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gets my brain up and running by having some movement and some blood flow,\u201d she says of the 35-minute trip by e-bike from her home in Lower Hutt to the Wellington CBD office where she works in IT four days a week.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in greater Wellington, 53% of workers commuted by car, truck or van in 2023 \u2013 significantly down on the 2018 figure of 58% and the lowest proportion of any region.<\/p>\n<p>In Auckland and Canterbury, 69% and 72% of commuters travelled to work by car, the statistics showed.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the shift away from cars could be attributed to an increase in the proportion of people working from home (it doubled in Wellington from 9% to 19% and rose from 12% to 18% across Aotearoa).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the odd day that Jo Clendon works from home, she misses her commute. \u201cIt gets my brain up and running by having some movement and some blood flow,\u201d she says<\/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-151600","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\/151600","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=151600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151601,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151600\/revisions\/151601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}