{"id":177420,"date":"2025-02-18T04:46:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T18:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=4889626bb09a992185ffe0038bd03497"},"modified":"2025-02-18T04:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T18:46:19","slug":"whanganui-to-have-say-on-revamping-city-public-transport-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=177420","title":{"rendered":"Whanganui to have say on revamping city public transport network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A shake-up of\u00a0Whanganui\u2018s\u00a0public transport could be on the way, with the community to have its say as part of a full network review.<\/p>\n<p>At present, there are nine public bus routes in the district.<\/p>\n<p>The newest addition, high-frequency service\u00a0Te Ngaru The Tide, accounts for 55% of all travel.<\/p>\n<p>Anthonie Tonnon, the\u00a0Whanganui District Council\u00a0representative on\u00a0Horizons Regional Council\u2019s\u00a0passenger transport committee, told district councillors the public would be presented with three options.<\/p>\n<p>Two of them, offering greater coverage (two Tide-like services and four hourly routes) or frequency (three Tide-like services and two hourly routes), relied on a higher budget, which Tonnon said would cost the average-rated household in Whanganui $95 a year. At present, households are rated about $55 a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shake-up of\u00a0Whanganui\u2018s\u00a0public transport could be on the way, with the community to have its say as part of a full network review. At present, there are nine<\/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-177420","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\/177420","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=177420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177421,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177420\/revisions\/177421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}