{"id":16299,"date":"2024-02-28T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T23:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=fa81baff199754ff30cbef8ceecaae55"},"modified":"2024-02-28T09:05:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T23:05:10","slug":"the-state-of-our-railways-how-did-we-get-here-and-how-do-we-get-back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=16299","title":{"rendered":"The state of our railways &#8211; How did we get here and how do we get back on track?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Azaria Howell reported in the\u00a0NZ Herald, that in Wellington \u201creplacing 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.\u201d Meanwhile, in Auckland,\u00a0disruptions continue on the rail network, which is undergoing a major rebuild ahead of the City Rail Link opening sometime in 2026. With all this negative coverage in the news, it\u2019s important to discuss how these challenges have come about, why it is strategically important to fix them, and how we do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Azaria Howell reported in the\u00a0NZ Herald, that in Wellington \u201creplacing trains with buses on maintenance days is expected to be the norm for at least<\/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-16299","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\/16299","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=16299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16300,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16299\/revisions\/16300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}