{"id":185684,"date":"2025-03-12T05:57:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=125ebb0110c235d957a273c91d760cb8"},"modified":"2025-03-12T05:57:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T19:57:49","slug":"proposal-to-increase-marlborough-bus-fares-by-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=185684","title":{"rendered":"Proposal to increase Marlborough bus fares by 20%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marlborough\u2019s bus fares are likely to increase for the first time since the inception of the Blenheim service 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The council\u2019s assets and services committee approved the draft proposal at a meeting on Tuesday, and heard that the fares needed to be increased due to a requirement from the Government.<\/p>\n<p>A 20% increase would lift the two Blenheim bus routes from $2 to $2.40 for adults and $1 to $1.20 for children. The Picton bus route would increase from $4 to $4.80 for adults and $2 to $2.40 for children, each way.<\/p>\n<p>Multi-model adviser Charlotte Campbell-Lamerton told the committee the Government\u2019s National Policy Statement for Land Transport 2024-34 said road controlling authorities needed to address the escalating maintenance costs across the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marlborough\u2019s bus fares are likely to increase for the first time since the inception of the Blenheim service 20 years ago. The council\u2019s assets and services co<\/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-185684","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\/185684","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=185684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185685,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185684\/revisions\/185685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}