{"id":167709,"date":"2025-01-17T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=2e558afa7ee7cedb2933b69109585054"},"modified":"2025-01-17T05:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:00:09","slug":"auckland-transport-announces-fare-increases-and-ends-off-peak-discounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=167709","title":{"rendered":"Auckland Transport announces fare increases and ends &#8216;off peak&#8217; discounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cost to take public transport in Auckland will go up from February 2, with Auckland Transport (AT) announcing a\u00a05.2% increase to fares\u00a0among a raft of new changes, to keep up with the cost of operation, maintenance and future improvements, with fares reviewed and updated each year.<\/p>\n<p>The changes will impact buses, trains, and ferries, with adult fares on buses and trains increasing between $0.15 and $0.25 per journey. Adult fares on ferries will increase by $0.20 to $1.40 per journey. Also ending their 10% off-peak discount, saying it did not have the impact they had hoped.<\/p>\n<p>The discount was introduced in 2021 as an incentive to help manage public transport capacity at peak times.<\/p>\n<p>The $50 7-day fare cap for Hop card users and the $20 daily fare cap for contactless payments will remain in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost to take public transport in Auckland will go up from February 2, with Auckland Transport (AT) announcing a\u00a05.2% increase to fares\u00a0among a raft of new c<\/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-167709","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\/167709","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=167709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167710,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167709\/revisions\/167710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}