{"id":169742,"date":"2025-01-25T10:54:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T00:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=4f955fda83402ea06da68d6f10ec96ad"},"modified":"2025-01-25T10:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T00:54:56","slug":"electric-articulated-buses-could-be-operating-on-the-2-route-from-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=169742","title":{"rendered":"Electric articulated buses could be operating on the 2 route from 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five electric bendy-buses could hit the streets of Karori in early 2026, ferrying passengers on the Number 2 bus route to the city centre.<\/p>\n<p>The Greater Wellington Regional Council\u2019s transport committee voted on Thursday to direct Metlink to by the electric articulated buses to run on Wellington\u2019s busiest route between Karori to Seatoun or Miramar.<\/p>\n<p>Rolling out in two stages, an initial five articulated buses would run between Karori and Courtenay Place during peak hours starting early 2026, before a full fleet of 29 buses take over the route.<\/p>\n<p>The committee\u2019s chairperson Thomas Nash believed the procurement would be finalised by the end of the year, calling the decision \u201chugely significant\u201d in the midst of public transport funding cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five electric bendy-buses could hit the streets of Karori in early 2026, ferrying passengers on the Number 2 bus route to the city centre. The Greater Wellingto<\/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-169742","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\/169742","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=169742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169743,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169742\/revisions\/169743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}