{"id":181019,"date":"2025-02-28T17:42:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T07:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=9fcd15541d8b14cc5b9c227d96128a67"},"modified":"2025-02-28T17:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T07:42:49","slug":"wellington-bus-and-train-fares-to-increase-from-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=181019","title":{"rendered":"Wellington bus and train fares to increase from July 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From July 2025, Metlink fares will rise by 2.2% and the off-peak discount will fall from 50% to 30% when using a Snapper card actoss the Wellington region.<\/p>\n<p>Greater Wellington councillors agreed on Thursday to increase fares in line with inflation but also aimed to keep the price affordable.<\/p>\n<p>A 2.2% fare increase and an off-peak discount of 30% means an adult travelling off-peak from Karori to the city centre will pay $3.17, up from $2.22. The same journey at peak would be $4.53.<\/p>\n<p>SuperGold card users will continue to travel for free at off-peak times, and existing concession discounts still apply. Off-peak discounts do not apply to the ferry and Airport Express bus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From July 2025, Metlink fares will rise by 2.2% and the off-peak discount will fall from 50% to 30% when using a Snapper card actoss the Wellington region. Grea<\/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-181019","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\/181019","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=181019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181020,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181019\/revisions\/181020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}