{"id":180618,"date":"2025-02-26T05:19:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T19:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=7afd645c8df1b1056f6fab77578acaea"},"modified":"2025-02-26T05:19:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T19:19:53","slug":"wellington-off-peak-public-transport-fares-to-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=180618","title":{"rendered":"Wellington off-peak public transport fares to raise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greater Wellington council officers have recommended a 42.8% increase to off-peak fares for trains and buses, citing rising operating costs and government cuts to public transport funding. \\<\/p>\n<p>The regional council will conduct its annual review of public transport fares on Thursday, and it looks like the changes will go further than regular inflationary adjustments.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, it costs $4.43 to bus from Island Bay &#8211; in zone 3 &#8211; to the city at peak times. Off peak, that same journey costs $2.22. If these recommendations are accepted, the off-peak cost would increase to $3.17.<\/p>\n<p>The recommendation is unfortunate, but necessary, according to the council\u2019s transport committee chair, Thomas Nash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greater Wellington council officers have recommended a 42.8% increase to off-peak fares for trains and buses, citing rising operating costs and government cuts<\/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-180618","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\/180618","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=180618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180619,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180618\/revisions\/180619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}